At that moment, the task of understanding and mastering linguistic forms will have been replaced by the dubious pleasure of reproducing the well-worn and terminally dull arguments one hears or sees on every radio and TV talk show.
She was a master of linguistic lucidity and the keenly observed, often epiphanic detail.
Vladimir Nabokov makes a welcome appearance, with the hilarious opening chapter of his novel Pnin, to confirm his status as the grand master of linguistic dexterity and childhood memory.
DRAFTERS of Communist Party documents in China are masters of linguistic sleights; Deng Xiaoping invented the term "socialist market economy" to satisfy hardline ideologues while he steered the country towards capitalism.
Many single women will refer to a man as their "baby daddy" while gay men have seemingly mastered the linguistic art of using the word "daddy" as a term of endearment, empowerment, and a literary aphrodisiac.
In the third stage, a person not working in the field of medicine, whose first language is English, and who masters the linguistic and cultural aspects of the Finnish language, back-translated (Finnish to English) the synthesised version blinded to the purpose of the instrument.
Regional tensions have been rife since Britain, Nigeria's colonial master, united different linguistic, ethnic and religious groups with little in common into a single country.
The poet Simon Armitage, who hit the bestseller lists with his own translation of the Middle English epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, called Tolkien's Beowulf a "tantalising prospect", adding that the author's translation of Sir Gawain "is a master class in linguistic chicanery – some sections of it read as older than the original!
Yet we can hardly master infinitely many linguistic conventions, one for each meaningful sentence.
I'm not going to become a linguistic master overnight.
