Sentence examples for linguistic incompetence from inspiring English sources
The picture painted by Jan Wiczkowski of politicians' linguistic incompetence may not be as bleak as he suggests.
Yet it also stands for the linguistic incompetence of all those normal adults, inadequate in all their different ways.
If I can't indicate that my praise of a colleague's new shirt is sarcastic, not literal, without a gurning yellow winker, its presence stands more as indicative of my linguistic incompetence than his sartorial faux pas.
Practitioners of a therapy called facilitated communication (F.C ., which became popular in the nineteen-nineties, claimed that the apparent linguistic incompetence of autistic kids could be overcome, and the communicative "child within" could be released, by means of a "facilitator" who gently supported the child's hand as it moved over a keyboard and picked out letters.
Much as Japanese contains alternative forms of address depending on the gender and social status of the speaker and the addressee, Comedic English employs a separate form of address for other comedians in which failure to include an act of intercourse or defecation in a sentence is considered a sign of linguistic incompetence and low social standing.
It makes no provision for degrees of either endorsement or linguistic incompetence.
28 Asian immigrants were also found to be disadvantaged in terms of obtaining healthcare due to linguistic barriers, cultural incompetence regarding American health systems, lack of insurance and being discriminated against in the healthcare system.
Thus, social externalism eliminates the notion of idiolect: words only have the meanings conferred upon them by the linguistic community ("public" meanings); discounting radical incompetence, there is no such thing as individual semantic deviance, there are only false beliefs (for criticisms, see Bilgrami 1992, Marconi 1997; see also the entry on idiolects).
Yet old animosities, linguistic differences between Anglo- and Francophone troops, and rampant theft and incompetence mean this will have a limited effect.
