FCS UB, Malang – We’ve all heard the word “Halloween”. As Indonesians, most of us generally recognize it while watching the Hollywood films. Did you know that Halloween originated as a ritual to ward off bad luck and is now celebrated as a holiday? According to Nicholas Rogers’ book “Halloween from pagan ceremony to party […]
In several social media such as Twitter, we commonly found popular language called the term Slang there. As well as the name of Slang itself is a language that is quite popular among internet users, netizens mainly teenager users. Teenagers are identical to the popular language since they have a lot of time to spend […]
A language branch that discusses word-formation is morphology. Before we go further learning this language branch, we have to know the word “morpheme” which is one of the terms in morphology that is important. Related to it, we would discuss the morpheme and things inside it. The morpheme is the smallest and simplest of a […]
FCS UB, Malang – February 14th is a date that is closely related to Valentine’s Day. In fact, Valentine’s Day is the memorial and memorable day of the death of the Saint. The origins can be traced back to a Roman priest named Saint Valentine who died tragically. Emperor Claudius II was remembered as a […]
Twitter is one of the social media that is mostly used by users around the world that called netizens. There are different terms that are commonly found in this social media which are far away from the common language used in daily life. Because of that reason, its terms are called Lingo. Lingo is appears […]
Source: tmg110.tripod.com FCS UB, Malang – Who doesn’t know the United Kingdom? Everyone around the world recognizes the iconic blue, red, and white-colored flag which represents the United Kingdom. Remarkably, the flag itself has a history that is unknown to most people. The Union Flag, or Union Jack, is the national flag of the United […]
Glastonbury Festival. Photo: Andrew Allcock FCB UB, Malang – Music fans worldwide, from kids to adults, eagerly anticipate the music festival each year and are even willing to stand in line just to see it. There is one major event in England, the ‘Glastonbury Festival,’ which is a music festival that attracts thousands of people. […]
Source: boingboing.net FIB UB, Malang – Most of us must frequently mistake the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England because their definitions seem to be the same at first glance. According to Ben Johnson from historical-uk.com, the three terminologies are used differently and must be understood correctly. Of broad terms, the classification refers to a […]
FCS UB, Malang – Behind America’s technological greatness, it turns out that there is a community in the country that opposes technology’s presence in their life. That community is the Amish, a group of people in America who have retained their ancestors’ way of life that is far from modernization and stay life as living […]
FCS UB, Malang – When we hear British people, what comes to our mind? Most people think that British with a distinctive accent. However, there are 4 groups of people in Great Britain who dominate, namely the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. It is hard and risky to define the typical British person. After all, […]