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After that, once-negative words like "skinny," "thin" and "bony" were given a linguistic version of cosmetic surgery.

The fantasy is that learning one activates a latent alter ego, righting a linguistic version of having been switched at birth.

Only yesterday, Iraq was the central front in the war on terrorism; perhaps the Pentagon's new terminology is the linguistic version of an exit strategy.

It may simply be that in a linguistic version of the big bang, a language mutation suddenly appeared, and that was that.

This swamp is conscientiously patrolled by the PC diversity brigade, and as a reward Benedict's had his head bitten off – a sort of linguistic version of sharia.

Shedding superlatives, I felt as though I were enacting a linguistic version of Coco Chanel's dictum that before leaving the house a woman should remove one piece of jewelry.

Indeed, validation of PRO measures (for new linguistic versions of an existing PRO measure or a validation in another population) involves slightly different questions and would not necessarily compare with primary validation.

The data from 7 countries, for which at least 80 patients had a baseline completed questionnaire, were analysed to validate the different linguistic versions of the QUALIOST® and to confirm the relevance of analysing pooled data.

In this sense, he formulated the first anti-linguistic version of Confucian epistemology (Mengzi CTP: Wan zhang shang, 5; Jin xin shang, 1, 5, 15; Liang Hui wang shang, 6).

The linguistic version gives up on the view that states of affairs are language independent (see King 2009, 259 who concedes this).

The aim of this study was to achieve a linguistic adaptation of the Chinese version of the Reflux Symptom Index (RSI-CH).