Sentence examples for conservative linguistically from inspiring English sources

Many people viewed the highly praised dictionary as overly innovative; educated Americans, even those who supported Webster's jingoism, were often conservative linguistically, adhering to British norms, and unwilling to challenge the authority of Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755.

Now, that is no doubt all very exciting for texting tweenagers, and I don't want to come across here as a linguistically conservative, humourless and miserable curmudgeon.

Educated at the universities of Bologna, Pisa, and Ferrara in civil and canon law, Tassoni joined the linguistically conservative Accademia della Crusca in 1589.

So paradoxically it seems that the profound influence of the King James Bible in changing and shaping our language came through the desire to be as linguistically conservative as possible.

A biblical translation, the Kralice Bible, was published during the late sixteenth century (around the time of the King James and Luther versions) which was more linguistically conservative than either.

We are linguistically divided.

Linguistically, they are Tibeto-Burman.

Linguistically, success comes from succeeding.

Though linguistically unidiomatic, Crooks is tonally ravishing.

Linguistically speaking you become your idiot brother.

It will not be linguistically true.