Sentence examples for an original language from inspiring English sources

The gap between the sublime and the terrible, between an original language and haplessness, is at the center of "Flesh and the Devil" (1926), with Greta Garbo as the adulterous lover of John Gilbert.

Not every language shows this pattern, but almost every Amerindian language family has one or more languages that have it, suggesting that all are derived from an original language in which first and second person pronouns started this way.

Instead of learning from the Valar, the Elves had created an original language Quenderin which had become the proto-language of the Elven language family.

"Dirty Havana Trilogy," translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, is banned in Cuba, though an original-language version was published in Spain.

In addition, an answer could perhaps be posited to the question of whether all languages are descended from a single original language or whether languages emerged independently among several groups of early peoples (the rival theories of monogenesis and polygenesis, a controversy more confidently disputed in the 19th century than today).

It seems especially odd to suggest that a play text, out of any literary form, should be carved out of an attempt to accurately translate the original language of an author writing a century ago.

The best modern systems rely on the likelihood of string A in the original language being rendered correctly as string B in the target language, based on a body of human-translated material that the computer has been trained on.

Moreover, he is a very distinguished poet, and in proportion to his distinction as a creator of original language the reader sanctions his original directions, some of which will be away from the original source: Heaney's originality cannot be Beowulf's originality.

Do I mean by this that to judge a novel one can do without a knowledge of its original language?

"In Italy it is difficult to see a film in the original language, because the voice actors here are a mafia," he told the Independent.

If nothing is scheduled, go and see a film (in the original language) at one of the many outdoor cinemas, a hugely atmospheric experience especially at Cine Paris (Kydathinaion 22, 210 324 8057), where the Acropolis in the background competes with the screen for your attention.