Sentence examples for ordinary speaker from inspiring English sources

An ordinary speaker of a language has some "oversight" of the language, some insight into what they are doing with it.

The strain of remembering the words and the ideas in the right order is what dominates the more ordinary speaker's mind in such circumstances.

7. It seems to me that Plato considers the characterizing relation as the parsing of the claims of an ordinary speaker.

For instance, when an ordinary speaker looks in the fridge and says 'there's no beer', she obviously doesn't mean to be saying that there is no beer anywhere in the universe.

From the ordinary speaker's perspective, register is perhaps as remote a concept as language system: in everyday life we encounter neither system nor register but text.

In the video called Sound Vibrates Matter, she documents the geometric shapes created by a white, powdery substance placed on top of an ordinary speaker.

When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all?

But announcers, ruthlessly eliminating every pause, hem and haw, quickly established an impossible standard for ordinary speakers to emulate in daily life.

The Xinhua Daily Telegraph said what was really needed to promote the purity of Chinese was greater respect for usage choices made by ordinary speakers, and less "narrow-minded linguistic nationalism".

Choueiri's system can produce remarkable effects from ordinary speakers: the sound of a fly buzzing in a circle around your head; the sensation of someone walking toward you and then whispering in your ear.

Writing in the journal Cognitive Processing, Dr. Jungers and her colleagues described a set of experiments in which musicians and ordinary speakers were tested to see how the sounds they heard affected what they produced.