Sentence examples for language that counts from inspiring English sources
"It's the language that counts for Quentin," he says.
But it is the language that counts, the joy of plunging into a language and finding a thread.
"The blanket entry ban on citizens from certain primarily Muslim countries is not the best way to address the country's challenges," Musk tweeted Saturday night, using the sort of mild language that counts for aggressive in the corporate world.
This means (at least) two things: books written in English are at an enormous advantage against books written in any other language; and "whatever language you write in, the translation that counts is the English one".
A small detail, sure, but in the long game of language learning, it's the little stuff that counts.
The Ebacc is a government league table measure that counts the proportion of pupils taking traditional subjects including modern languages.
Now, a study of Pacific Island languages suggests that counting systems can also evolve in reverse, becoming more object-specific.
It was the Count that counted.
Lucy (1992), for example, found that speakers of Yucatec Mayan, a language that lacks count nouns, made errors on memory tasks that required keeping track of specific quantities of items.
That counts as another mystery.
