Sentence examples for language disputes from inspiring English sources

No matter the language, disputes are part of the nature of Wikipedia, Matthew Roth, the global communications manager of the Wikimedia Foundation, said in an e-mail.

Grammarians employed Bedouins as referees in language disputes, and the élite sent their sons to live with nomads so that they would learn to speak correctly.

That would be a great surprise to Anthony Hopkins, Jan Morris or Dylan Thomas.Wales's language disputes are certainly nothing to those of Belgium, where personal relations between the Flemish and Walloon communities can be rancorous, or of Quebec, where English-speakers have left in droves.

The frequency of such language disputes has increased in recent months.

The crucial document of the language dispute of the past half century was Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.

7], victim of the age-old language dispute which pits Dutch-speaking Flemings against French-speaking Walloons.

In 2009 the linguists Andrew Nevins, Cilene Rodrigues and David Pesetsky, three of the fiercest early critics of Dr. Everett's paper, published their own in the journal Language, disputing his linguistic claims and expressing "discomfort" with his overall account of the Pirahã's simple culture.

WHETHER to teach young children a second language is disputed among teachers, researchers and pushy parents.

But the proprietors of the Bournemouth language school dispute that account, claiming that Ms. Gu initially wanted her son to attend a different school entirely.

Now, Brown, 26, has responded to those claims posting a video on Instagram where he uses offensive and misogynistic language to dispute her allegations.

His authorship of the greatest plays in the English language is disputed, his name relegated to the status of a kind of Renaissance holding company, a coalition of lesser known figures of the time who somehow produced works of transcendental genius under the Bard's loose franchise.