Sentence examples for an ordinary speaker from inspiring English sources

7. It seems to me that Plato considers the characterizing relation as the parsing of the claims of an ordinary speaker.

For instance, when an ordinary speaker looks in the fridge and says 'there's no beer', she obviously doesn't mean to be saying that there is no beer anywhere in the universe.

In the video called Sound Vibrates Matter, she documents the geometric shapes created by a white, powdery substance placed on top of an ordinary speaker.

An ordinary speaker of a language has some "oversight" of the language, some insight into what they are doing with it.

No ordinary speaker, it consists of a thin sheet of rubber sandwiched between two layers of a saltwater gel, and it's as clear as a window.

From the ordinary speaker's perspective, register is perhaps as remote a concept as language system: in everyday life we encounter neither system nor register but text.

The strain of remembering the words and the ideas in the right order is what dominates the more ordinary speaker's mind in such circumstances.

Choueiri's BACCH™ system, which produces 3-D sound from a pair of ordinary speakers, can create the sound of a buzzing fly circling your head so realistic that the urge to swat is almost irresistible.

Contemporary philosophy of language describes models in which the correctness of the application of some ordinary language expression such as 'water', 'elm' or 'star' can turn on the presence or absence of a feature that ordinary speakers need not be able to distinguish, such as having a certain constitution or make-up.

But announcers, ruthlessly eliminating every pause, hem and haw, quickly established an impossible standard for ordinary speakers to emulate in daily life.

So, whoever turns out to be right, the contextualist or the 'invariantist', a substantial portion of ordinary speakers are afflicted by "semantic blindness" (Hawthorne 2004, 107).