Sentence examples for decay of a language from inspiring English sources

One reviewer wrote: "There is no surer or more fatal sign of the decay of a language than in the interpolation of barbarous terms and foreign words".

One reviewer wrote: "There is no surer or more fatal sign of the decay of a language than in the interpolation of barbarous terms and foreign words". But Murray pressed on, as, later, did Onions, helped by readers from around the world.

As one reviewer put it in 1889, "there is no surer or more fatal sign of the decay of a language than in the interpolation of barbarous terms and foreign words; if a great dictionary is to be regarded as a treasury of the language it should give no currency to false and fraudulent issues".

Among his predictable targets are the erosion of deference, the spread of TV culture and the decay of English language.

When Miss Perry suffers a stroke, it is the decay of language that most unhinges her.

Near Kirchberg am Wechsel he lived in a room furnished only with a bed, a table and a washstand, taught grade school, brooded more about the megalopolitan decay of language, and cultivated — however quixotically —simplicity.

2. Decay of language in utterance and form, whereby also significant changes in function and sentence construction occur, historical period.

Artist Paul Ramírez Jonas talks about half-truths and bureaucracy, fake IDs and institutional space, and the incipient decay of language.

German: Biography of a Language.

The main features of radioactive decay of a nuclear species are often displayed in a decay scheme.

He attacked modern life, modern technology, the English encroaching into Wales and the Welsh responsible for the decay of their own culture and language.