This automatically used to bring some spontaneous responses from the students, which almost always ended in a debate among them in the language of Mathematics.
There's an ongoing debate about the language of the Jews in the first century.
Also in the studio is autistic trumpeter Robyn Steward who sparked a lively debate on the language of disability.
These debates are often expressed in the language of the impact of information technology on particular values and rights (Johnson 1985 , 1994.
It is why the debate is being played out in the language of fear rather than hope.
But its real dimensions emerge in the language of the debate -- words like history, culture, heritage, faith, human rights, civil liberties and even ethnic cleansing.
In the language of the debate, they are "disempowered," and to the extent that the language is correct they cannot do much about it except attack what they take to be the symbols of their powerlessness — a statue they didn't make, a textbook they didn't choose, a vocabulary of assumptions about culture that are not their assumptions.
Predictably, the two issues split developing and developed countries, or providers and users of genetic materials, in the language of the debate.
The clashes in Wisconsin and other states, and in Washington, D.C., are dressed up in the language of budget debates.
Politicians appear in television debates in the Walloon, Flemish and German parts of the country, and do so politely and in the language of the viewing audience.
