Sentence examples for language changing from inspiring English sources

In a tonal language, changing a word's pitch changes its meaning; for example, the Mandarin word "ma" can mean mother, reproach, horse, or hemp depending on the pitch the speaker uses.

Those silent s's are a perfect example of the spoken language changing while the written remains the same.

One reader noted the way in which the ending was worked for, Vernon's language changing after his imprisonment, as he seemed to accept rather than rail against his fate.

Passengers are removed from an aircraft for benign reasons such as asking for a beverage, a child harness, speaking a foreign language, changing orupgrading seats, taking pictures, making videos, or questioning a long delay.

Now, with television language changing quickly to reflect the rude realities of life, this thoughtful, provocative drama examines how racial slurs function in society, how insidiously they creep into common use.

There are, of course, issues around Blyton's attitude to race and class; her publisher recently adapted her language, changing very "of their time" phrases such as "dirty tinker" to "traveller".

Realize that even though some reviews may be in other languages, changing your language only applies to the links and dialog boxes that are displayed.

As the British Library's Roger Walshe told the Guardian, "There is always interest in language and there are always debates about whether language is changing or declining or improving and also what is influencing language".

The conclusions emphasize the contribution of interactive perspective to analyze the family interaction and daily routine influence on communicative and language difficulties, anyway the efficacy its strategies to improve child language and changing interaction styles family.

I think language is becoming more human and it's not just that the language is changing.

It was a time when the language was changing as rapidly as the world it described, and he welcomed the changes.