Sentence examples for alien speaker from inspiring English sources

It wasn't until studying linguistics at university that she became fascinated by the universal characteristics of all human languages and what might be possible for a truly alien speaker.

Lord Xenu knows, the genre can be difficult enough to understand when reader and author speak the same language; the challenge becomes exponentially greater when an interpreter must take an idea that is by definition alien to native speakers, and somehow make it comprehensible to foreign audiences.

There are, however, specific sounds in many foreign languages that a native English speaker may find alien and therefore harder on the ear.

Looking like engine parts from an alien spacecraft, the looming speakers thundered with enough bass to make one's esophagus flutter.

Ms. Manthanee, whose nickname is Money, says having an English name is practical because it is easier for foreigners to pronounce, unlike Thai names, which are tonal and can include sounds alien to non-Thai speakers.

On foot and on horseback, by train and automobile, Mr. Leigh Fermor found hospitality among people alien to most English speakers of the time: Orthodox Jewish woodcutters in Transylvania, Hungarian Gypsies, White Russian exiles, German barons, French-speaking monks in Austria, and Romanian shepherds along the Danube.

On Davidson's and Quine's accounts, by contrast, the interpreter/translator must assume the speakers of the (alien) language to hold broadly true beliefs.

It has done this when it has taken me unawares by creeping out of a radio speaker like a tiny alien invasion, as it always did when I was young.

The company's product lineup already includes smart speakers called Rokid Pebble and Alien, which are currently sold in China.

The Swiss anthem glides between the four speakers as if sung by alien invaders in a flying saucer.

I asked the speaker if he believed in space aliens.