In the history of language, words rise and fall.
He notes, for example, that between 1926 and 1939 the proportion of Jews in the Soviet Union listing Russian as their first language rose from a quarter to more than half.
Even though Ms. Muller's message is blatantly clear — power corrupts — little about it, despite, or because of, her penchant for such an expressive dance language, rises to a visceral level.
The number of UK students taking GCSEs in a foreign language rose 17% last summer, a turnaround welcomed by educationalists, who warned that interest in the subject area had plummeted over the past decade.
Lee's narrator is presented as a "Poetess," and when she falls into her lover's arms, her language rises fearlessly to the occasion: "On my breasts his lips and hand came knowingly and known, and through me a river of ice melted away into the wine-hot torrent of desire.
Other programming languages rose from the foundation that Fortran built.
On a recent visit to American Apparel's factory floors here, amid the whirring of sewing machines and the whooshing of cooling fans, a murmur of many languages rose: mostly Spanish, but also Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Portuguese.
Hence the rise over the past decade of the quick-and-dirty scripting languages the "sticky tape" of the World Wide Web .A language that incorporates concepts from artificial intelligence will appear when the time is ripe and leave Java and C# by the wayside .These languages rose to prominence largely because they are so flexible and adaptable to the needs of the Internet.
In a wide variety of spoken languages, rising intonation is used to mark questions, and variants of "Hello!" are used to answer the telephone.
A literal Tower of Babel of languages rises above the din.
