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Representatives for the Oakland schools have given answers that sometimes conflict with the wording of the resolution itself on such issues as whether ebonics would or should be a language used in formal instruction (as opposed to something that teachers simply should be given financial incentives to be aware of and conversant in); whether ebonics would itself be taught as a subject; and whether claiming the status of a distinct language for ebonics was, in fact, a ploy to shake loose federal bilingual-education dollars (an outcome immediately ruled out by Richard W. Riley, the secretary of education).
The wording thus has an extended or connotative aspect to it, becoming what Austin called a performative utterance.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the goings-on at the China/Japan summit in Tokyo (which is also fronted by the WP , and carried inside at the NYT ), where leaders of the two countries agreed to deeper economic, environmental, and social ties, but haggled over the form and wording of Japan's official apology for the brutal acts it committed against China during World War II.
If all this is too complicated to follow, let me summarize: you look up word X and get synonyms A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. You look up the synonyms for word A, and you get synonyms X, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Even the definition provided for the sub-listings is identical in wording to that of the word originally sought.
Many tests would be improved by wording questions to address current problems (the past year or three months) rather than lifetime problems.
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