The strategy of forcing languages to imitate Latin, even if it means disfiguring them, is an attempt to get back some lost power.
Around the same time, however, Franz Boas, a linguistically minded anthropologist who had emigrated to America from Germany, was growing irritated with the European tendency to force languages into the Latin mold.
If we don't want to learn a new language, we force our language on others.
His early writing is full of forced, flowery language.
It, too, relied on simplistic, blunt-force language in outlining his plan to deal with the Islamic State.
Ms. Gilleran (who uses the original spelling of her family surname) went in search of her son, encountering a homophobic police force, language barriers and suspicious circumstances.
UK membership attracts inward foreign investment from both banks and industry capitalising on the open market culture, skills, rule of law, flexible labour force, language and time zone.
As a social force, language serves both to strengthen the links that bind the members of the same group and to differentiate the members of one group from those of another.
Its importance lies, they said, in its thematic approach, tying together ideas, for example, on small business aid, work force language training, government-provided health coverage and providing money that has not been forthcoming for promised education programs.
Based on a 2003 novel by Don DeLillo, "Cosmopolis" merges the distinctive sensibilities of a filmmaker and a novelist who have both been called prophetic, a shorthand way of saying that both have their antennas up for the larger forces — language, technology, the collections of images and systems of knowledge — that shape our world and our sense of reality.
