Sentence examples for decay of language from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
In this period there was a strong connection between rhetoric and the arts, as between oratory, themes of social decay, and the consoling power of language and form.
As a lifelong student of languages, I very painfully experienced the decay of the ability to learn another language in old age, beginning at 50, when I commenced to add a Slavonic language, tcheque, to my repertoire.
Even though language change is often initially evaluated negatively by speakers of the language who often consider changes to be "decay" or a sign of slipping norms of language usage, it is natural and inevitable.
