Sentence examples for dead tongues from inspiring English sources

He also played keyboards in a band known as the Dead Tongues.

In addition to his academic work, Sag will be fondly remembered as the founder and leader of Dead Tongues, the unofficial rock 'n' roll band of the Department of Linguistics.

Jurafsky, who played in Dead Tongues with Sag, said it was much more than a department band – an intellectual community where band members spent as much time "discussing linguistics in Ivan's kitchen during breaks" as they did rehearsing.

Hugh, that lover of dead tongues, makes the eloquent observation that words "are not immortal," and "a civilization can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of... fact".

Right now, Stigwood had his Caligula face on, eyes dead, tongue lolling.

The video piece called Dead Tongue featured himself singing in his father's Indigenous Australian language of Bidjara, of the Kunja nation in central Queensland.

His piece from the Marina Abramović residency, Dead Tongue, builds on a number of previous works, including 2010's Gamu Mambu (Blood Song), 2011's Dhagunyilangu (Brother) and 2014's Refuge, now showing as part of a curated retrospective at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Sydney.

The musicians, who drew their inspiration from the same tablets' depiction of Ashurbanipal's flayed enemies being tossed off of walls, had Wisnom train their lead singer to pronounce Akkadian so he could growl monologues in the dead tongue incomprehensibly, but accurately, under the music.

Experimenting with dead cat tongues may seem weird, but it turns out felines still have a lot to teach us.

Their crowning achievement, Fitch said, was a comprehensive "family tree" that showed how such modern languages as English, Russian, Spanish and Hindi diverged from Indo-European, a dead ancestral tongue spoken about 10,000 years ago.

But my brain went dead, and my tongue went limp.