Sentence examples for outmoded language from inspiring English sources
But its now outmoded language (including use of the term "cybersurfers") is typical of the early days of the net, before journalists felt they were writing about anything but a sci-fi geeks' social club.
An independent web-game written in an outmoded language and drawn with rudimentary blocks and 16-bit colours that finds unprecedented financial success will confound the wisdom of most video game critics, consultants and publishing mavens.
Our grandchildren will no doubt think of us as unwieldy social dangerspots who could offend anyone at any minute with our outmoded language.
In English primary schools today we are operating under a compliance-led curriculum and assessment regime, where the assumption from the DfE is that progress is linear, and that the ability to vomit back outmoded grammatical language will equip our little ones for a lifetime of success in an uncertain world.
And it is Alan the professor who paradoxically best demonstrates in emotional terms what some academics have been saying for years about the corruption and inadequacy of an outmoded ruling-class language.
Our starting point was those popular television shows from the 1970s that contained views or language so outmoded they probably couldn't be aired today.
William Safire may be tickled to know that the outmoded "bling-bling" he referenced (On Language, Nov. 23) will survive in the recorded history of our language.
Common problems include bad teachers hired via written tests rather than oral ones, and an outmoded approach that sees English as a foreign language to be taught about, rather than a lingua franca to be taught in.
(History, a scornful dismissal of the out-of-date, as in "he's history," denoted what was once called passé, a term now so outmoded as to be antediluvian, a word washed ashore after Noah's flood. The language of fashion cries out for an up-to-date word for "out-of-date").
Outmoded equipment slowed research.
"My therapist says" is outmoded.
