Philosophers need to elucidate (a) the nature of the difference between taking language literally and taking it metaphorically, the nature, if you will, of the reinterpretation language undergoes when we take it metaphorically, and (b) the nature of the division of expressive labor between a metaphor's focus and its frame.
The most famous portion of the paper, however, is a humorous footnote he included in the introduction: Unwary readers should take warning that ordinary language undergoes modification to a high-pressure form when applied to the interior of the Earth.
Actually, Eisenhower wanted more than change; he wanted the Party to get rid of its most abrasively conservative members and, to use Rand Paul's language, undergo a "transformation".
Weil's comparison to the religious conversion is indeed apt because, just like in the case of the convert, the writer who changes languages undergoes a death-and-rebirth experience.
Because large societies have frequent interaction with outsiders, their languages undergo simplification.
Although the etymologizing of proper names appears in the Old Testament and Plato dealt with etymology in his dialogue Cratylus, lack of knowledge of other languages and of the historical developments that languages undergo prevented ancient writers from arriving at the proper etymologies of words.
Tones 1 and 4 are both represented without a diacritic, and can be distinguished from each other by the syllable ending, which is a vowel,,, or for tone 1, and,,, and for tone 4. Southern Min languages undergo considerable tone sandhi, i.e. changes to the tone depending on the position of the syllable in any given sentence or utterance.
Nevertheless, the medieval language underwent development, however spasmodic, in various directions.
That is mainly because our language underwent some seismic sound changes after the written forms of many words had been more or less settled.
Every living language constantly undergoes changes in its various elements.
Speaking in Metro, the new Metric language, which undergoes constant revision, the C.E. informs the author/narrator that external pressure has forced him to "terminate" the author, i.e., to expel him from the future.
