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Question 4 is the last related to concrete languages.

The question on benefits and problems of MLSD in this questionnaire was kept generic, i.e. participants were asked to answer this question regardless of concrete languages or language types.

It also touches our research question five: designers indicated that they provided tools for checking these interactions (68%), but that their tools were not generic (8%); i.e., they were focused on the concrete languages.

The article provides a gentle introduction to this wide area of research, by addressing a few natural questions that arise when dealing with ontologies, by overviewing a number of concrete languages for ontology specification, and by discussing the use of ontologies in Bioinformatics and Biology.

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"Bernie and Hillary tend to use concrete language," she explained, "whereas the Republican contenders — with the possible exception of Kasich — tend to use descriptive language.

These sections of the book are told in a charged, elliptical, symbolic, highly concrete language: "He cut the veil of the rock; the hooves clattered the bellowing waters below him in the dark.

Whereas Kurds once looked to the West and patiently tried to master the human rights language of the European Union, now at least some of them are looking south, to the more urgent and concrete language of protest movements in the Arab world.

William Strunk and E. B. White, in their famous book The Elements of Style, suggest, in rule 16 (one of the "Elementary Principles of Composition") that a writer ought to always "use definite, specific, concrete, language".

Conversely, when an out-group individual does or is something desirable, we tend to describe them with more concrete language (we do not generalize their success), whereas their undesirable attributes are encoded more abstractly (we generalize them).

He credited Schwartz with making him want to become a writer and to express himself in the most concrete language possible.

(Elements of Style Rule #16: Use concrete language. The best writers report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures).

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