Sentence examples for Language conventions from inspiring English sources

Dr. Crystal predicted that many language conventions would evolve naturally.

As with most sports, it has its own language, conventions and idiosyncrasies.

The grammar nerd in me loved the task, yet I was surprised to find that even in Britain, where English language conventions are sacrosanct, there is still a great deal of flexibility in style.

We should decide what works best in each case — keeping in mind our responsibilities to readers and to those we write about — while language conventions evolve to keep up.

O.K., but if he got 15 percent on a French test, why indicate that he "is beginning to identify and use the vocabulary, the grammar and language conventions appropriate to his grade level?" The teachers are lovely, committed, smart, quirky people.

The real issues in Turkey – the language conventions forced upon us by nationalistic thinking, the simplistic attitudes induced by the power of mediocrity, the barbarity of popular culture, all the sexist attitudes I have to endure daily, the gulf that exists between writer and reader – are they not enough?

The final column represent the significance of the metric in the model; here, we used the R language convention where significant variables with a p-value lower than 0.001 are indicated with three stars *** (see the Table 2 caption).

Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries speaking Swedish have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation or translation costs.

We follow SBGN Process Description language convention [ 69] to choose the glyphs for model elements' representation: Metabolites are drawn as circles linked by edges to the reactions where they participate; reactions are represented as squares; compartments are drawn as rectangles.

Re "What Do You Say to an Alien?" (news analysis, Sunday Review, Feb. 12): Each type of message surveyed — cultural artifact, even scientific principle — runs the risk of having its significance lost on beings with alien languages, conventions and sensibilities.

But the real challenge for coders and designers is to learn the new language and conventions that virtual reality demands.