Sentence examples for lousy language from inspiring English sources

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This argument has been made most forcefully and convincingly for Creole languages [26], but it has been speculated that any situation in which a language is learned by a substantial number of adults it becomes simplified due to the "lousy language learning abilities of the human adult" [28].

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Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, did not really need to say that it was time for "some grownups in the room": the lousy body language was clear from the photos of the meeting.

I went to university and all I got was this lousy double-honours law and languages degree.

She added that even the students who liked the book tend to find the language — "phony," "her hands were lousy with rocks," the relentless "goddams" — grating and dated.

Petrobras is today an exemplar of something else: the lousy performance of state-owned firms.Ronald Reagan said the nine most terrifying words in the English language were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".

And then there is the matter of science's conspicuously compact and jargon-laden language, which is, perhaps, the most efficient means of communicating with other experts but is a lousy way to tell a good story.

"It's lousy, lousy, lousy," Pucher said.

"Lousy prom".

Lousy orphans.

Lousy ending.

Lousy house".

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