Because speakers aren't normally able to hear distinctions not made in their own dialect (for example, a speaker from the Southern United States who does not distinguish between pin and pen won't hear the distinction when it's produced by speakers of other dialects), speakers who can hear such a contrast but don't produce it may still possess the contrast as part of their linguistic repertoire.
Hewitt also pressed Trump to identify the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas, two of the most powerful militias and non-state actors in the Middle East today, leading a testy Trump to declare that he would learn such distinctions "when it's appropriate".
Thus, we could not make this distinction even when it was examined in detail retrospectively.
In 1989 the London production of Cats surpassed Jesus Christ Superstar as the longest-running British production of a musical; it held that distinction until 2006, when it was overtaken by Les Misérables, another blockbuster show originating in the 1980s.
However, as with all distinctions, its usefulness evaporates when it is confused with other related but different distinctions.
Nevertheless, the distinction between "realism" and "nominalism", especially, when it is used to refer to the distinction between the radically different ways of doing philosophy and theology in late-medieval times, is quite justifiable, provided we clarify what really separated these ways, as I hope to do in the later sections of this article.
She said Project Canvas, the technology that will blur the distinction between computers and TV when it is introduced in 2011, would be a significant part of the transformation.
This is an important distinction, as kitchen science is most valuable when it's rooted in practice.
Among the most familiar objections to this proposal is that there is no principled distinction between when a creature is learning and when it is done learning.
He said that because of differing historical origins, there is a distinction when it comes to the spelling of d'Arnaud's and den Dekker's names.
