He speaks with a military man's directness, without undue banter or humor, in competent English.
Cambridgeshire NHS, within whose area Ubani did his shift, says it always demanded proof of competent English from applicants to its list.
The 21st century has arrived in places like Bangalore, several hundred miles south of Aurangabad, where every block has a software company and Indian telephone operators are operating call centers for American companies who need inexpensive, competent English speakers.
In particular, they take A-intensions to reflect what is understood and communicated by minimally competent English speakers and what guides their everyday classifications.
While semantic externalists acknowledge only the C-intension as modeling an expression's semantic content, 2D empiricists will insist that both A- and C-intensions reflect important aspects of a competent English speaker's understanding of a word like 'water'water
To take French's examples, there would be widespread agreement amongst competent English speakers in the technologically developed Western world that "Flugblogs" is not an appropriate name for a breakfast cereal, while "Flugly" is an appropriate name for a child's teddy bear.
Obviously, although there might be a tendency among competent English speakers to use "there is" and "exists" in different contexts, ordinary language use is too wavering and non-uniform in this respect to be a stable ground for a philosophical theory.
Most competent English speakers who know the meanings of all the constituent words would find an obvious difference between the two sets: whereas they might wonder about the truth or falsity of those of set I, they would find themselves pretty quickly incapable of doubting those of II.
Both boys, and especially Albert were considered by his family to be a potential husband for the young princess, and they were both taught to speak competent English.
He was also one of only a handful of trustworthy and competent English-speaking interpreters in China.
