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But their announcement has only spurred further debate, for it would make linguistic outsiders of the great majority of East Timorese, pushing them to the sidelines of national reconstruction.
On one hand, if a company chooses to manage the global operations from the United States, its foreign sites are far more prone to make linguistic and merchandising mistakes -- for instance, selling goods that might be offensive in certain cultures, or offering product instructions that are delivered with the wrong tone.
Developing the engineering students' literary competence in analyzing and debating on literary and non-literary texts, in arguing for or against certain theories and ideas pertaining to literature, science and technology generates motivation to make linguistic progress and brush up on the foreign language.
It's not unlike being flummoxed by your roommate when he suddenly insists he's a reptilian Sleestak creature; then demands that you make linguistic sense of his constant Sleestak hissing.
Visual-world eyetracking experiments suggest that listeners, when hearing speech in a visual context, make linguistic predictions about upcoming references [19] [21].
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In his book "The Language Instinct," Steven Pinker takes the same road as Deutscher: dramatically debunking a claim Whorf never made (linguistic determinism) then proceeding to agree with the claim Whorf did make (influence).
However, experts prefer making linguistic assessments rather than exact numerical assignments.
Therefore these philosophers are, perhaps, both more given to making linguistic distinctions, and better at finding such distinctions, than most.
It was Motoori Norinaga who made linguistic claims about the "difference" of ancient Japanese into the foundation of a theory of Japanese cultural uniqueness and superiority.
Although the classical AHP method uses crisp judgments to assess criteria and alternatives, experts prefer making linguistic judgments such as close to equal importance and not more than medium importance.
This attitude makes linguistic sense, as the Chinese word for "crisis," weiji, contains characters from the words for both "danger" and "opportunity".
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