Sentence examples similar to a certain locution from inspiring English sources
It is an alienating process – certain locutions and words that you'd always spoken naturally suddenly involve a sense of performance, a self-consciousness, and either you choose to use them, and become "characterful" to the English listener, like one of Shakespeare's comic turns, or you trim your spoken language accordingly and revert to your first speech only with family and school friends.
A good dictionary must convey something crucial about the words you're driven to look up: whether, that is, you'll seem cool or jerky or pretentious or out of step or ignorant or bananas when you take certain locutions into your own hands.
They thus move directly from the claim that certain locutions incur no controversial ontological commitments of the kind incurred by singular first-order quantifiers to the claim that these locutions incur no controversial ontological commitment whatsoever.
A certain pattern emerged.
