Sentence examples for linguistic minefield from inspiring English sources
Indeed, it seems that there are often entirely different words and phrases, and indeed accents, that can be deployed by some Americans as they seek to navigate this cultural, social and linguistic minefield.
Obama worked his way deftly through this linguistic minefield and in an otherwise unremarkable speech about Anglo-America and freedom (time, I'd say, to give the Normandy beaches a breather), noted that he, the president of the world's most powerful nation, is "the grandson of a Kenyan who served as a cook in the British Army".
Jokes are another linguistic minefield.
The world, it turns out, is a linguistic minefield.
Not keen on battling through the linguistic minefield of my name, I came up with an alternative opening.
His story seemed to weave unconsciously through the political and linguistic minefields that had kept me up until midnight the night before, but that was the least of it: his narrative sang.
The choice of a single word involved separate deliberations in New York and the Washington bureau and demonstrated the linguistic minefields that journalists navigate every day in the quest to describe the world accurately and fairly.
Confused as to how to negotiate this linguistic and political minefield?
Romanians up for deportation can challenge it by demonstrating work or study, but those doing sex work – or other casual or cash-in-hand jobs – find it difficult to provide documentation and face a bureaucratic minefield, not to mention the linguistic and financial barriers to proving their cases.
