Sentence examples for odd terminology from inspiring English sources
The site pointed to many apparently counterfeit elements in the documents, like odd terminology, misspellings, grammatical errors and the apparent use of a typewriter.
For a start there is the odd terminology ("the stones are in the house," the commentator shrilled during the Olympic showdown, as if Mick Jagger and the boys had just entered the building).
You still find some rather odd terminology when trawling the menus (as is often the case with titles translated from Japanese), but at least the key elements are easily accessible now.
This peculiar — if not odd — terminology has caused numerous misunderstandings, not only about Bolzano's views but also for Bolzano himself, e.g., in his discussion about Kant's dictum that being is not a real predicate.
Cellphone technology has its own terminology, too.
It is only really marred by the odd outburst that reveals how uncomfortable the author is with technological terminology, a serious flaw for a scientific biographer.
It still strikes me as odd that a commentator as alert as Paxman should inadvertently repeat the mai baap (mother-father) terminology of the officers of the empire, who, complacent that they were "parents", were shocked when their "children", the sepoys, rose against them in the 1857 mutiny.
If the format terminology hasn't already sent you screaming to the video diary room, here's a quick rundown on other odd film-making phrases you might come across, whether making a 30-second mobile phone blipvert or a five-hour neo-Cassavetian psychodrama.
The terminology is revealing.
