Sentence examples for linguistic distinction from inspiring English sources

This included the all important mark of linguistic distinction – the ability to swear like a native speaker.

Most agreed it was a linguistic distinction, and a Twitstorm not worth the pixels it flickered so quickly through.

He was making a linguistic distinction, swatting at the common use of "Vatican" as a synonym for the Roman Catholic Church.

"We're not obligated to return anything to anyone," Mikhail Piotrovsky, the museum director, told the newspaper Vremya Novostei, noting a linguistic distinction: "We can hand things over".

This dichotomy was presumably inspired by a linguistic distinction, analogous to that between English count nouns, such as "apple," and mass nouns, such as "water".

Professor Amar: At the same time that Madison was drawing his fine linguistic distinction, other leading Federalists were obliterating it, proclaiming that a "republican" government could be either directly or indirectly democratic.

I make a difference between linguistic distinctions and real ones".

Ethnic, religious, and linguistic distinctions in Sri Lanka are essentially the same.

All this points to an active foreign policy in a world that is characterized by a fundamental unity in spite of political and linguistic distinctions.

The southerners resented the notion that Mandarin should be adopted as China's lingua franca, fearing that many linguistic distinctions particular to the south would be lost.

The smooth and graceful translation, by Robert Finn, has met the challenge of finding subtle variations in syntax, vocabulary and cadence that will distinguish the different voices without making us distractingly aware of these linguistic distinctions.