Sentence examples for foreign linguistic influence from inspiring English sources

However we may come to rate the relative penetrability of languages -- and it is debatable, say, whether English, Japanese, Turkish or Uzbek is more open to foreign linguistic influence -- the process of English-absorption that is going on before our eyes in Japan today is awesomely inventive.

She found that, far from opening up the OED to foreign linguistic influences, Burchfield had deleted 17% of the "loanwords" and world English words that had been included by Onions, who included 45% more foreign words than Burchfield.

He's no longer talking about linguistic influence so much as his own heredity.

For me, this idea of a two-way street taps into a wider question about linguistic influence and evolution.

The people he calls "extreme speakers" — those who have the greatest linguistic influence on others — tend to be visible local people: "politicians, Realtors, bank clerks".

The linguistic influence of Gaelic seems to have played some part: Highland English has traditionally possessed such peculiarities as double plurals, hence his "womens bewailing".

"Some feel strongly that it should remain internal, without linguistic influence and participation, and pass to the next generation orally.

French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish are taught with the help of foreign linguistic institutions.

It has been colonized twice -- once by the Germans (hence the heavy linguistic influence and superb German cuisine) and once by South Africa.

But neighbors said that the second man also spoke with a thick Hadhrami accent, in his case spiced with the linguistic influences of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf.

Well, a mix of Turkic and Persian heritage has had strong linguistic influences here.