Sentence examples for happening language from inspiring English sources

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Wayne Glowka, member of the Georgia College and State University faculty and head of the New Word Committee of the Dialect Society, said about the happening, "Language is just going on its merry way, creating many new words.

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Like its forerunners, the game uses words to describe everything that's happening, transforming language into a landscape that's only ever visible in isolated pieces that the player must decipher.

In her corpus-based study of process types, Neale (2002 270) recognised that "there are social domains within which an authorised person may "bring about" a happening through language that is referred to by a verb sense".

"Poetry," she says, "is not about language but about what happens when language gets impossible".

When that happens, the language and culture disappear with little trace, typically because many of the languages we're losing have not left written or recorded evidence behind.

I also love to see what happens to language as emotion is added to it -- how we talk when we are upset, how language breaks as we cry or scream or mutter".

This has most probably happened by language appropriating writing to such an extent that the words 'written/spoken' no longer refer to just two modalities of expression: they actually name two styles of meaning-wording.

Odd things happen when language is globalised.

Something similar happens in language all the time, Dean Buonomano told me.

"No matter what happens, our language will live on within us".

She says that poetry is what happens when language becomes impossible.

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