The phrase "astonishing language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a form of communication that is surprising or impressive in its eloquence or creativity.
Example: "The poet's use of astonishing language captivated the audience and left them in awe."
Alternatives: "remarkable language" or "extraordinary language".
The largest party may be well short of a majority, so vote-counting is likely to be followed by weeks of political horse-trading.Like everything else in PNG, politics is dominated by the unstinting loyalty that individuals are expected to show to their clan and their wantok (group of clans speaking the same one of PNG's astonishing 840 languages).
A closer understanding of these astonishing graphic languages might just offer us a clue for why that is.
Os Lusíadas reveals an astonishing command of language and variety of styles and provides a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary man and poet.
This sort of inference is called "fast-mapping" and is thought to be the skill that underlies human children's astonishing speed of language acquisition in early childhood.
Tramp Press was the only one to get back to her, publishing it to glowing reviews in the Irish media, including a rave from Joseph O'Connor in the Irish Times: "What elevates the book beyond the category of promising first novel is the author's astonishing power with language.
"It's astonishing that spoken language can be transmitted through millennia with enough fidelity to give us information about our early history".
She went on to state, of Miller himself: "Miller is the calibre of writer who deserves to be followed regardless of topic, time period or setting because of his astonishing dexterity with language, his piercing observations and his ability to combine rollicking storytelling with depth of character".
To an astonishing extent, heritage languages spoken at an early age are not forgotten.
On the other, it is driven by new life, by the child in "Bubbles" who makes her way "still wobbly and astonishing, / over the language's uneven ground".
Pushkin's use of the Russian language is astonishing in its simplicity and profundity and formed the basis of the style of novelists Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, and Leo Tolstoy.
