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  • Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.†  (source)
    linguistic = related to language
  • Fluent in Arabic, he had a particular interest in linguistic roots.†  (source)
  • Using the elemental code above and supplemented with low-resolution images, gradually build up to a full linguistic system.†  (source)
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  • Sophie was surprised she had not spotted the linguistic ties immediately.†  (source)
    linguistic = related to language
  • He was making a linguistic atlas of the Punjab); they asked if I wanted to teach a beginning section someday, or tutor some graduate students.†  (source)
  • Then Enki must have had some kind of linguistic power that goes beyond our concept of normal.†  (source)
  • The much-storied disenchantment with mathematics among Western children starts in the third and fourth grades, and Fuson argues that perhaps a part of that disenchantment is due to the fact that math doesn't seem to make sense; its linguistic structure is clumsy; its basic rules seem arbitrary and complicated.†  (source)
  • Nelson spent part of an afternoon demonstrating to me that fine linguistic difference while we scraped chicken manure from the nest boxes.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • The guards were actually pleasant, barely glancing at their minimal luggage, more curious about their linguistic ability than their possessions.†  (source)
  • "What a great linguistic puzzle," Art said.†  (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)
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