"The quickening pace of language endangerment and extinction is viewed by many linguists as a direct consequence of globalization," said Juliette Blevins, a distinguished linguist hired by City University to start the program.
Certainly it does not capture the endless inflections of "cool", possibly imported into America by African slaves using the West African word kul to mean "excellent" and now, says Mr Fischer, the most widely borrowed adjective on earth.Looking to the future, Mr Fischer assumes that the pace of language extinction will accelerate, driven by electronic technology.
The pace of scripted language is slow.
To a certain extent, they can also decide their pace of study, language, and method of working in groups and/or individually.
Section 4 compares linguistic diversity with biodiversity, while Section 5 compares the pace of extinction between language and living organism.
Easily one of the best Jamaican novels ever written, The Book of Night Women, a slave narrative, is an incredible feat of plotting, pace and language.
It is likely, however, that the persistence of the terms environmental sculpture and kinetic sculpture is a result of the failure of language to keep pace with events; for the practice is already growing of referring simply to environments and kinetics, as one might refer to painting, sculpture, and engraving, as art forms in their own right.
"We look forward to receiving more submissions over the coming months and years, and, as the pace of change within the English language continues to accelerate, the contributions by eagle-eyed and sharp-eared word-spotters will become increasingly important".
This includes not showing any signs that you suspect the other person of lying and making an effort to mirror his or her body language and pace of conversation.
Can produce familiar stretches of language with sufficiently appropriate pacing and intonation to help listener's understanding.
Once a confidently fast reader, I found myself reading at the pace of a person learning a foreign language.
