Sentence examples for make up a language from inspiring English sources

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We have to do it all, including the impossible or all but impossible task: make up a language as you go along.

Guinevere Eden and Thomas Zeffiro, who work at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, have found an example of it using a brain-scanning technique called functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI .One of the fundamental characteristics of dyslexia is difficulty in handling written phonemes (the units of sound which make up a language).

It's not so surprising that English's "openness" to words fails to overwhelm McWhorter — he's a linguist, and as a bunch linguists tend to be less impressed with the words that make up a language's vocabulary than they are with how those words fit together.

Registerial cartography is the activity of systematically describing the registers that make up a language — with register in its original sense of a functional variety of a language, i.e. of the adaptation of the meaning-making resources of a language according to context of use.

Make up a language.

You don't have to make up a language, although you can, but it might be too complicated.

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She makes up a language for children's perceptions, as at the beginning of The Waves; she gets inside the vulnerability, the fears and the sensory perception of children (Jacob lost on the beach, Rose running down the dark street in The Years, Cam Ramsay absorbed in watching a rock pool).

He just invented the specific elves in Lord of the Rings and made up a language for them".

Make up a new language (spoken or written) and a story using it.

If you can't purchase any Furbish guides, make up a Furbish language on your own!

You could make up a secret "language", for example, your bedroom could be "the bunker".

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