All 7 Uses

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Do You Speak American?
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In the right context, a split infinitive can look like the end of civilization as we know it.†
Chpt Intr. *
You can tell usually by context what the differences are.†
Chpt 1
On the computer in his Philadelphia office, you hear a woman say black, then the whole phrase "Old senior citizens living on one black," and from the context you realize she says block like black.†
Chpt 2
In the context of globalization and people moving around, she says, "You often hear that places don't matter the way they used to.†
Chpt 2
Bailey said, "In the large cities you had spatial segregation but you also had the formation of separate communities often with a kind of oppositional culture to the rest of the U.S. This created an ideal context for African American Vernacular English to develop along a sort of separate track."†
Chpt 6
What makes this simulation possible is the ability computers offer to break down the way we talk into small pieces of sound, to put them in a context—actually, in hundreds of contexts.†
Chpt 8
What makes this simulation possible is the ability computers offer to break down the way we talk into small pieces of sound, to put them in a context—actually, in hundreds of contexts.†
Chpt 8

contexts = settings or situations in which things occur

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