Sentence examples for languages work from inspiring English sources

How do languages work?

Where spoken languages operate acoustically, signed languages work spatially.

"Some legislators said, 'Let the protesters get a doctorate in finance, learn two foreign languages, work in a bank for a few years, and then they will be qualified to discuss I.M.F.

There are others, however, who create what are called engineered languages, or englangs for short, which are built with the purpose of testing a hypotheses about how languages work.

For simple numerical computations, most of these languages work almost equally well; in fact, BASIC (for "beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code"), which was developed by a group at Dartmouth in 1963-64, is the most widely available language for small home computers, and will enable people to do about anything that they want to do with such a computer.

Both languages work, in their own contexts of practice.

The difference between the way Java and other programming languages worked was revolutionary.

Mary, with her command of languages, worked to support German refugees.

The app supports 38 languages, works offline, uses 3D Touch and works on both iPhone and Apple Watch.

Many students do not understand how interpretation of traditional computer languages works, e.g., where does control flow and how do variables get updated (DuBoulay 1989).

How does language work?