Talking drum, any of various types of drums that, by imitating the rhythm and the rise and fall of words in languages, are used as communication devices.
The response has tended to be embarrassment about his moralizing tone and fall-of-Rome language.
"There has been a slight decline in modern foreign languages but the introduction of the EBacc has arrested the historic fall of foreign languages at GCSE and we expect this will grow the pool of young people who are equipped to go on to study languages at A-level".
But the falling number of language department nationally puts at risk the academic infrastructure for languages.
During the period of the Byzantine Empire (i.e., until the fall of Constantinople in 1453) the language of administration and of most writing was firmly rooted in the Atticist tradition; it is this archaizing style that is often referred to as "Byzantine Greek".
Today, in an era of what Cyril Connolly would call "over civilisation" – celebrity culture, televised war, the rise and fall of credit, imploding banks – the language of decadence, self-conscious and maximalist, seems a more apposite discourse with which to portray reality than flat naturalism.
"I took common words in a number of languages and saw if the languages fell into groups".
The languages of the Americas, in his view, fell into three major groups, which he named Na-Dene (a group of languages spoken in Alaska and northeastern Canada); Eskimo-Aleut; and Amerind, which included all the other languages.
Some simply lace their unscrupulous screeds with loaded language about the fall of the Republic.
The tradition that performances are punctuated by the rise and fall of a sheet of cloth survives in everyday language.
