The Obama Administration has carefully avoided using the word "coup" — a linguistic trip wire that would trigger the automatic withdrawal of the $1.3 billion in aid that Washington annually remits to Egypt.
Linguistic traps are everywhere.
Chances are that we'll never even encounter the names of most of these tongues, let alone hear them spoken, yet there is little doubt that as more of us choose to travel to new destinations, a little bit of linguistic preparation before our trip can pay off handsomely.
Linguistic ties matter too.
If that turns you off, it's easy to dismiss Revolution as little more than a narcissism trip – a pavonine linguistic display with a deficit of real substance.
Mr. Wilmes is set to start in the coming Broadway transfer of "Chinglish," the David Henry Hwang comedy about an American businessman who encounters linguistic and cultural difficulties on a trip to China, its press representatives said Wednesday.
This particular route offers a telling snapshot of my cross-linguistic, socio-psychological research trip to study the intricacies of the Georgian national identity in correlation with the cultural and political post-Soviet heritage of the Russian language.
Were this not so, we would be doing something about our linguistic competence – something less faddish than dispatching teachers on paid trips to China.
The mechanistic constituents of TRIP process are expressed in modular form using linguistic if then rules developed from the fundamental physical metallurgy concept.
Whether you find this linguistic convergence cheerful as an Abba foot-stomper or depressing as an Icelandic fishing trip will say as much about your politics as it will your views on language.
PITY the linguistic purists.
