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  • His linguistic behavior suggests that at some time Quentin Tarantino, the writer-director, was in contact with the Good Book, despite all his Bad Language.†   (source)
  • Then Enki must have had some kind of linguistic power that goes beyond our concept of normal.†   (source)
  • He gave linguistic examples, showing that to us the Hindi letters da, da, and dha all sound identical to us because we don't have analogues to them to sensitize us to their differences.†   (source)
  • Adding to the complication: the newcomers in Clarkston were not a homogenous linguistic or cultural group of, say, Somalis, whose appearance had transformed some small American towns like Lewiston, Maine, but a sampling of the world's citizens from dozens of countries and ethnic groups.†   (source)
  • "The kind of place," I said, still safely in linguistic territory that needed no gender marking, "that will rent me a sledge and sell me a hypothermia kit.†   (source)
  • Obviously, as vital as the physical appearances was language-not merely the fluent use of English but the mastery of linguistic idiosyncrasies, the dialects that were characteristic of specific locations.†   (source)
  • Herein lies a linguistic riddle—whether the prefix "a-" in their language does indeed mean "without."†   (source)
  • He believes that coming to a language late can be an advantage, because one brings better credentials, linguistic, cultural, and emotional.†   (source)
  • And I am sure that after you hear the testimony of linguistic experts, Dr. Richard Madden, and the men of the Amistad themselves, you will have no other choice but to conclude that the blacks on board the Amistad are in fact residents and citizens of African nations, and as such are subject to immediate release and guaranteed return to their nation as stated by the Treaty of 1819.†   (source)
  • It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.†   (source)
  • …were employed in making fine clothes out of the fancy goods snatched on the station ramp from condemned Jews, expert cobblers and workers in high-quality leather, gardeners with green thumbs, technicians and engineers possessing certain specialist capabilities, and a handful like Sophie with combined linguistic and secretarial gifts) were spared extermination for the raw pragmatic reason that their talents came as close to being invaluable as that word had any such meaning in the camp.†   (source)
  • Except that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA.†   (source)
  • A number of linguistic theories have been developed in an effort to tie all languages together.†   (source)
  • "Linguistic infrastructure," Uncle Enzo says.†   (source)
  • Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic; he liked Katherines.†   (source)
  • Carefully wrought American English is part of our national linguistic life, too.†   (source)
  • And I'm good at, like, linguistic tricks like anagramming.†   (source)
  • Number two, what linguistic feature is in AAL?†   (source)
  • Linguist Walt Wolfram sees a lessening of the colonial linguistic mentality.†   (source)
  • Linguistic alchemy.†   (source)
  • Over the past two decades, King's College Research Institute in Systematic Theology had used optical character recognition software in unison with linguistic translation devices to digitize and catalog an enormous collection of texts—encyclopedias of religion, religious biographies, sacred scriptures in dozens of languages, histories, Vatican letters, diaries of clerics, anything at all that qualified as writings on human spirituality.†   (source)
  • The effect of this linguistic mode is to describe things in such alien ways that the acts themselves seem alien as well.†   (source)
  • There was a continuing split in the department along these lines which in part gave rise to, or at least accelerated the growth of, Phaedrus' wild set of ideas which no one else had ever heard of, and Jack was supportive of Phaedrus because, although he wasn't sure he knew what Phaedrus was talking about, he saw it was something a fiction writer could work with better than linguistic analysis.†   (source)
  • As if God were playing a linguistic joke on us, we lived in "Veetee-er" (Whittier), we shopped at "Veetvood" (Whitwood) Plaza, I attended "Leffingvell" School, and our neighbor was none other than "Valter Villiams."†   (source)
  • Guiding principle: using universal, basic mathematical and physical laws, construct an elemental linguistic code that can be understood by any civilization that has mastered basic algebra, Euclidean geometry, and the laws of classical mechanics (nonrelativistic physics).†   (source)
  • Okay, so it has to do with linguistic roots, but I do believe this would be a richer country if all Americans could do a little tongue aerobics and learn to pronounce "kh," a sound more commonly associated in this culture with phlegm, or "gh," the sound usually made by actors in the final moments of a choking scene.†   (source)
  • \ "The universalists place the active nodes of linguistic life-the deep structures-so deep as to defy observation and description.†   (source)
  • Glossolalia-speaking in tongues—is the output side of it, where the deep linguistic structures hook into our tongues and speak, bypassing all the higher, acquired languages.†   (source)
  • The guards were actually pleasant, barely glancing at their minimal luggage, more curious about their linguistic ability than their possessions.†   (source)
  • One member of the team that met to discuss the Emily tapes, Carol Fleisher Feldman, later wrote: In general, her speech to herself is so much richer and more complex [than her speech to adults] that it has made all of us, as students of language development, begin to wonder whether the picture of language acquisition offered in the literature to date does not underrepresent the actual patterns of the linguistic knowledge of the young child.†   (source)
  • These linguistic skills were one of the reasons he was recruited by the Security Police in 1950, during the time when the impeccably mannered Georg Thulin was head of the third division of Säpo.†   (source)
  • Eight hundred years ago the Translators Office was a collection of minor officials who assisted in the interpretation of extra-Radch intelligence, and who smoothed linguistic problems during annexations.†   (source)
  • The linguistic imprint on American English of German and its Jewish relative, Yiddish, is on an altogether different scale.†   (source)
  • Although Congress cut off most immigration in 1924, this wave of linguistic discrimination, or paranoia, passed.†   (source)
  • It was first proposed by Jonathan Swift, on the model of the French Academy, to dictate linguistic standards.†   (source)
  • Along with William Labov in Philadelphia, she says, "Girls are the movers and shakers in linguistic change.†   (source)
  • Labov says that these leaders of linguistic change have had a history of nonconformity and that their language itself was a display of nonconformity.†   (source)
  • Reconquest, taken literally in the linguistic sense, would mean the replacement of English by Spanish—the whole enchilada, so to speak.†   (source)
  • Levy detects one linguistic role for like, similar to you know, "to build conversational solidarity and negotiate common ground."†   (source)
  • Carmen vigorously refutes the claim by Vicente Fox and Carlos Fuentes that Latinos are achieving a linguistic reconquest of America.†   (source)
  • By the end of the 1930s, Bonfiglio says, "New York speech had become dissonant with the notions of heartland American linguistic and ethnic purity."†   (source)
  • Advertisers were as quick as politicians to meet average Americans on a comfortable linguistic level.†   (source)
  • So is the matter we discussed with Cliff Nass, the stereotypes that are deeply lodged in the linguistic psyche of America.†   (source)
  • Their works and those of dozens of poets, nonfiction writers, playwrights, essayists, and critics carry out to the English-speaking world a linguistic standard of the highest order.†   (source)
  • But even in a society as youth-obsessed as California's, there are other powerful engines of social change, which lead in turn to further linguistic evolution.†   (source)
  • That movement began a cultural and linguistic migration that continues to this day, as we shall see, gathering power and belated prestige in both North and South.†   (source)
  • "Fashion leaders are concentrated among young women of high gregariousness," Labov says, calling the linguistic changes he has studied "the audible equivalent of the visual effects of fashion."†   (source)
  • Ironically, given today's linguistic anxieties, in the same editorial the Times suggested that, if a second language was needed at all, Spanish would be more useful for business.†   (source)
  • That may even produce more tolerance and appreciation of the linguistic diversity of this country, and less negative stereotyping of some dialects (such as New York or Southern) as "bad English."†   (source)
  • It is also widely believed that if they just made a serious effort black children could easily learn standard American, to pull themselves up by their linguistic bootstraps.†   (source)
  • Wall sees tolerance for Spanish as a threat to the linguistic unity of America, to our common civic language, which could lead to a linguistic Balkanization of the United States.†   (source)
  • He confirmed that the school district was really insensitive to the linguistic background of the vast majority of African American students within the school district.†   (source)
  • Females among the Burnouts were the principal leaders of linguistic change, measured by how completely they adopted the vowel changes in the Northern Cities Shift.†   (source)
  • Looking at the two previous words, the system then decides which word sequence would best match the spoken sounds it has been given and the linguistic model constructed from the database.†   (source)
  • Working from census figures as well as linguistic data, Fought calculates that the Inland Southern dialect overtook Inland Northern in the past twenty years.†   (source)
  • Linguist Dennis Baron says that "linguistic discrimination remains publicly acceptable in the United States, while other forms of discrimination do not."†   (source)
  • He said there was no hard evidence for a general linguistic decline, adding, "If we are bent on finding a decline in standards, the place to look is not in the language itself but in the way it is talked about."†   (source)
  • He said that girls used it more often than boys, and he found that "compatible with a body of linguistic evidence that in Western cultures women employ a co-operative conversational style more than men."†   (source)
  • John Baugh says, "For far too long the quest for racial equity has pushed hot buttons like affirmative action, while ignoring the importance of corresponding linguistic buttons altogether; that cycle must be broken if race relations in this country are ever to improve."†   (source)
  • Both the older maps of the Dictionary of American Regional English, based largely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century word use, and the very new Atlas of North American English, created from current pronunciations, present the Ohio River as a linguistic frontier.†   (source)
  • She said, "Our task is to help move them towards mastery of the language at school, in its oral and written form, but to do that in a way where they are not devalued, or where they feel denigrated in any way by virtue of their cultural and linguistic differences."†   (source)
  • Sheidlower thinks that John Simon and others who believe that there is a serious decline in linguistic standards are "wrong and misguided," because "language change happens and there's nothing you can do about it."†   (source)
  • Language uneasiness is rife today, as generations of Americans leave high school much freer socially but without the linguistic confidence of earlier generations, who were better grounded in basic grammar.†   (source)
  • To use the terms in the latest map, "The Linguistic Atlas of North America," we travel through Eastern New England to New York, then to Philadelphia, then west into the Midland dialect, then to the Northern, the Southern, and on to the West.†   (source)
  • In the future there will be competing linguistic trends, John Baugh said as he discussed the choices that shaped his own life: "For ordinary people, not professionals, there will be a tendency to maintain their regional or ethnic identities.†   (source)
  • For years Stanford University linguist John Baugh has been studying what he calls "linguistic profiling," as real in black lives as the "racial profiling" whereby skin color alone makes police suspect criminality.†   (source)
  • Penelope Eckert believes that "linguistic style is inseparable from clothing style, hairstyle and lifestyle," and the crux of this stylistic development comes from young people, but especially girls interacting with their peers.†   (source)
  • He maintains that people like John Simon are actually complaining that linguists and dictionary writers are no longer focused exclusively on the language of top people: "When linguistic conservatives look at the way things were in the old days and say, 'Well, everything used to be very proper, and now we have all these bad words and people are being careless and so forth,' in fact people always used to be that way," Sheidlower says.†   (source)
  • Linguist John Baugh wrote that Labov's research, "The Logic of Non-standard English," "was the single most important article ever written that debunked the pervasive linguistic fallacies associated with cognitive-deficit hypotheses"—that is, the fallacy that speakers of Black English were somehow mentally backward.†   (source)
  • There is still a dispute, too specialized for nonlinguists like us, over whether the Creole theory of black linguistic development means there is a deeply embedded structure in black language or whether, in Cukor-Avila's words, "factors such as education, age, and social class were also significant in determining linguistic choices.†   (source)
  • Rarely does linguistic research in any one community extend over such a long period of time, and to achieve this, she said, it was necessary to win the trust of the locals: "When I first started out with this project, I would basically hang out there most of the day and interact with people who came in and talk with them, not necessarily record right at first, until I got to know people.†   (source)
  • Even his linguistic accomplishments sat very lightly on him—to such an extent, indeed, that he did not speak at all beyond uttering such words as please, thanks, you bet, rather and hallo.†   (source)
  • With these to work on he contrived to master the intricacies of your language, and we still possess in our library the manuscript of one of his first linguistic exercises--a translation of Montaigne's essay on Vanity into Tibetan--surely a unique production.†   (source)
  • This symbolism is not peculiar to dreams, but is characteristic of unconscious ideation, in particular among the people, and it is to be found in folklore, and in popular myths, legends, linguistic idioms, proverbial wisdom and current jokes, to a more complete extent than in dreams.†   (source)
  • "Why pay rent?" the linguistic circular went on to demand.†   (source)
  • At the far end on his left, the hunchbacked amateur photographer from Mexico sat perched on several pillows, wearing the facial expression of a deaf man, the result of linguistic isolation; on his right was seated the old maid from Transylvania, a lady who, as Herr Settembrini had complained, demanded that everyone take an interest in her brother-in-law, although no one knew the man, nor wished to know him.†   (source)
  • They were addressed by a congressman who had just returned from an exhaustive three-months study of the finances, ethnology, political systems, linguistic divisions, mineral resources, and agriculture of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, and Bulgaria.†   (source)
  • A note of pity sounded in the Doctor's voice; and then struck by the number—only eight at table—"Are these luncheons what you would describe as 'intimate'?" he inquired briskly, not so much out of idle curiosity as in his linguistic zeal.†   (source)
  • In it lay what may be called the linguistic peculiarity of the heath; and being audible nowhere on earth off a heath, it afforded a shadow of reason for the woman's tenseness, which continued as unbroken as ever.†   (source)
  • Another proof that he was a native of the universal country was apparent in the fact of his knowing no other Italian words than the terms used in music, and which like the "goddam" of Figaro, served all possible linguistic requirements.†   (source)
  • And I found it more or less appropriate that the French word for shark, requin, has its linguistic roots in the word requiem.†   (source)
  • Archaeologists and philologists have identified in Homer relics of artifacts and linguistic forms that must date to the Greek Bronze Age of the middle second millennium.†   (source)
  • Comparative linguistics has traced even deeper roots, reaching back beyond the early third millennium when the peoples who would become the Greeks first broke off from their kindred linguistic groups and descended into the Balkan peninsula.†   (source)
  • Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.   (source)
    linguistic = related to language
  • I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication.   (source)
  • It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin.   (source)
  • What thus goes on out of school does not interest the guardians of our linguistic morals.†   (source)
  • They pay attention to linguistic attainments of many other kinds, but not to this.†   (source)
  • The colonists, indeed, showed a beautiful disregard of linguistic nicety.†   (source)
  • Once he had picked up half a dozen localisms, he would be, to all linguistic intents and purposes, fully naturalized.†   (source)
  • Thus the American, on his linguistic side, likes to make his language as he goes along, and not all the hard work of his grammar teachers can hold the business back.†   (source)
  • But more important than this purely linguistic hostility, there is a deeper social enmity, and it urges the immigrant to change his name with even greater force.†   (source)
  • He was born in Wisconsin, of Norwegian parents, in 1845, and pursued linguistic studies at the University of Wisconsin, where he seems to have taken a Ph.†   (source)
  • [40] No other country can show such linguistic solidarity, nor any approach to it—not even Canada, for there a large part of the population resists learning English altogether.†   (source)
  • The same lack of any sense of linguistic integrity is to be noticed in many other directions—for example, in the freedom with which the Latin /per/ is used with native nouns.†   (source)
  • In our own time, with thou passed out entirely, even as a pronoun of contempt, the confusion between /you/ in the plural and /you/ in the singular presents plain difficulties to a man of limited linguistic resources.†   (source)
  • They are the products of a movement which, reaching its height in the English of Elizabeth, was dammed up at home, so to speak, by the rise of linguistic self-consciousness toward the end of the reign of Anne, but continued almost unobstructed in the colonies.†   (source)
  • In place of the local dialects of other countries we have a general /Volkssprache/ for the whole nation, and if it is conditioned [Pg020] at all it is only by minor differences in pronunciation and by the linguistic struggles of various groups of newcomers.†   (source)
  • "In most of our grammars, perhaps in all of those issued earlier than the opening of the twentieth century," says Matthews, "we find linguistic laws laid down which are in blank contradiction with the genius of the language.†   (source)
  • The immigrant in the midst of a large native population, of course, exerts no such pressure upon the national language as that exerted upon an immigrant language by the native, but nevertheless his linguistic habits and limitations have to be reckoned with in dealing with him, and the concessions thus made necessary have a very ponderable influence upon the general speech.†   (source)
  • In the first chapter I mentioned the superior imaginativeness revealed by Americans in meeting linguistic emergencies, whereby, for example, in seeking names for new objects introduced by the building of railroads, they surpassed the English /plough/ and /crossing-plate/ with /cow-catcher/ and /frog/.†   (source)
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