Sentence examples for altering meaning from inspiring English sources

The situation is this: Chinese is a tonal language and the various tones are sort of like musical notes, with each one radically altering meaning.

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But its other seven villages have yet to be altered, meaning right now there is a rare window for travellers to experience Dong culture before the villages change forever.

Validation of the completed survey was tested in all jurisdictions, particularly to ensure that translation had not altered meaning.

He said that there was no evidence votes were altered — meaning that no votes were changed after the fact.

Human languages rely on numerous morphological processes to alter meaning, one prominent example being affixation, the addition of a morpheme (the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning), to a word stem (the part of the word that never changes), as for instance in the English word 'brother-hood' [6].

Gance first released this picture in a version that was as long as three normal features; in 1922, he brought out a shortened version, which ran only three hours and was altered in meaning.

He stresses that his translations, while exacting, are not literal; he does not change Gilbert's words in essence, but he does alter meanings and contexts, making them cross-cultural.

And yet for all the ways it manages to transcend genre or to extend genre's remit into ominous new areas, The Psalm Killer remains at its black, beating heart a piece of classic, textbook modern noir, presenting all the elements that are expected of the form but with changed lighting, altered meanings.

Ricoeur (1981) and Bruner (1990) suggest that storytelling can alter meanings and therefore actions, meaning-making being pivotal to human action.