Sentence examples for educated speakers from inspiring English sources

A good book like the ones above will simply note how (mostly educated) speakers actually use their native language.

Another nonvocalic sound, /h/, was pronounced only by educated speakers even in the Classical period, and references to its loss in vulgar speech are frequent.

And, in seeking to enhance their social status, poorer and less educated speakers may try to acquire the dialect of the socially prestigious.

More-highly educated speakers and, often, those belonging to a higher social class tend to use more features belonging to the standard language, whereas the original dialect of the region is better preserved in the speech of the lower and less-educated classes.

The language of the narrative and the educated speakers is pure, easy, and elegant, and the wit of the best comic passages is brilliant; but the general impression, even when allowance is made for the fragmentary state of the text, is that of a book written quickly and somewhat carelessly by a writer who would not take the necessary trouble to discipline his astonishing powers of invention.

As psychologists have repeatedly shown using tests like the Wason selection task, even educated speakers will fail to act as if the argument form modus tollens is correct in certain circumstances (Wason 1966, 1968; Cosmides 1989).

Most educated Bihārī speakers also know Bengali and Hindi.

For educated Arabic speakers, the language of the classical period is relatively easy to enjoy.

These cassettes focus on the pronunciation of English in North America as it is spoken by educated native speakers.

Yet the archaic language and high-flown verse, while inspiring, can also be difficult to understand even for educated Arabic speakers.

But Wikipedia editors are largely people like Mr Henderson: educated native speakers of English who volunteer their time to spread knowledge.