Sentence examples for dated language from inspiring English sources

This followed market research that suggested children were no longer engaging with the tales about child detectives, due to their dated language.

It was responding to market research suggesting children were no longer drawn to the tales about the child detectives who drank "lashings of ginger beer" because of Blyton's dated language.

By chance I had just finished reading "The White Nile," by Alan Moorehead, which, despite some dated language, is a very readable tale of the 19th-century European intervention that ultimately led to the uneasy borders of Sudan, now redrawn.

No child reads Biggles as realism: on the contrary, the dated language, the peculiar settings and attitude are accepted as a necessary estrangement, like the magic in Harry Potter.

"These 21st-century female college students could understand mating strategies intuitively," even when they were described in dated language, said Dr. Daniel J. Kruger, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who led the study.

Avoid using numbers or letters for words (2, 4, U, etc), or other dated language.

"I think these methods are extremely promising," said Dr. April McMahon of the University of Sheffield and the president of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, though she expressed concern about Dr. Gray's emphasis on dating language splits.

The characters' New York dating language entered the 90s pop-lexicon in a way that Bart Simpson's "eat my shorts" never could.

If the biologists' methods can date languages that existed 9,000 years ago, how much further back can they probe?

Evolutionary biologist Russell Gray and his graduate student Quentin Atkinson of the University of Auckland in New Zealand combined state-of-the-art computational methods from evolutionary biology with an older technique for dating languages, called glottochronology.

The stone age is a time that pre-dates language and written records.