Sentence examples for linguistic life from inspiring English sources

In every other walk of linguistic life, sexism is being rooted out.

It is a fact of linguistic life that languages change and often splinter.

Céline draws his vitality, his linguistic life from a joy in describing human action that comes to nothing.

It is today getting another chance at linguistic life because it meets a need -- not a "felt" need, but a real one -- in an age when words and phrases come and go like overnight celebrities.

Every aspect of our linguistic life is open to technologization of one form or another, from the way that kids of Blake's generation will learn to acquire literacy with the help of app-laden multitouch devices to our growing expectations that computer interfaces should be able to recognize our speech and text, understand it and talk back to us.

The Quebecois are either a unique and vibrant people with strong traditions, or Canada's basket-cases, unable to survive without being pumped full of linguistic life support – you can't have it both ways.

Most words have a 50% chance of being replaced by a new non-cognate word every 2,000 3,000 years (a word's linguistic half-life 5), but among the words in the Swadesh list there is at least a 100-fold variation in rate of change, such that some have linguistic half-lives under a millennium whereas others are expected to last over ten thousand years.

However Niger-Congo language speaking groups (mainly Bantu language-speakers), shown as circles, are over-represented among the non-milk drinking groups while Afro-Asiatic language speakers (triangles) are over-represented among the milk drinking groups, showing the genetic differentiation of these two linguistic and life-style groups.

While his fellow imperialists devote themselves to bridge and billiards, Burton plunges into the rich linguistic, spiritual and sexual life around him.

The linguistic downgrading of human life and the natural world fuses in a word a Norwegian health trust used to characterise the patients on its waiting list: biomass.

Struggles over the nature and form of power devolution to language regions and communities attracted significant attention, and the federalization of so many aspects of Belgian political and social life promoted linguistic regionalism.