Phone calls are face-to-face conversation minus body language, minus facial expressions, plus an imperfect connection that often spurs you to accidentally interrupt, mishear, or get distracted and lose the thread.
What starts out as marginally clever word-bending can lead to a status-defining mini-language that highlights the worst aspects of its user's character: in this case, insouciance, privilege, and narrow thinking.
When "Amores Perros", a blockbuster film about the Mexico City underworld, was released a few years back, Spaniards complained about the lack of subtitles.Argentinian Spanish has its own sub-language, lunfardo, thought to derive principally from the criminal jargon of Italian immigrants, and similar to Cockney rhyming slang.Chile has an entire mini-language built around one word, huevón.
In Sect. 3 we define a mini-language called core Haskell that supports context-dependent overloading and multi-parameter type classes, and define a type system that avoids ambiguous expressions to be well-typed.
DSLs are mini-languages created specifically for the need of a specific domain [21], such as the topic at hand, scientific workflows.
We describe the philosophy of using several coordinated mini-languages to provide user specifications for various aspects of the tool, including melody and chord representation, styles, melody generation, and other musical knowledge.
But while a double negative may make a positive when you multiply minus three by minus two, language doesn't work in such a logical way: multiple negatives add emphasis.
The Senate planned votes Friday to approve the spending bill, minus the language approved by the House of Representatives that would strip funding from the 3-year-old health care law.
In modern terms, minus the language of yin-yang cosmology, this translates into an understanding of the Dao as "an absolute entity which is the source of the universe," as the Oxford English Dictionary (online edition, under "Tao") defines it.
He wants contracts written in plain language, minus fine print or "anytime, any reason rate hikes".
That sentiment, minus the colorful language, was then echoed by Roger L. Stavis, Anthony Pirro's lawyer.
