Sentence examples for pointless language from inspiring English sources

This pointless language was just one of a great many illogical provisions that Members of Congress were inserting into the bill in order to be able to take credit for having done "something" to contribute to the war on drugs.

Enforcing strict, old-established rules and stigmatising variation is ultimately pointless because language will evolve, eventually, anyway.

While the Americans have been desperately trying to catch up with their pointless English language remake of Ring (which botched all the original's set pieces), Nakata has moved on, creating a ghost story superior in ambition, intellect and maturity.

Some observations are pointless ("Spanish-language literature does not typically employ quotations marks or line breaks within dialogue"); banal (" 'Season of Ash' is about nearly everything that has happened over the last 50 years"); meaningless ("There is simply nothing resembling prose in 'Season of Ash.' ") If there is no prose, then neither is there criticism.

Pop culture claims of the Welsh language being "pointless" or "extinct" implies to young people that speaking Welsh is "uncool" – probably the most condemning sentence for any counterculture trying to survive or revive itself.

"I get a lot of people saying that they think this work is pointless as all minority languages that have no utility are better off dying off anyway – a kind of social Darwinian position," he says.

Jed Mercurio, who wrote and directed the new version, thinks that trying to shock modern audiences with the original language would be pointless.

Real life is often made of questions and answers, and the parlance of quiz, from "the $64,000 question" to "pointless answer" have gifted the language plenty of fun expressions when we're asking each other questions.

Languages might be pointless.

Scrowjane It's pointless teaching English as a foreign language in Britain.

In the middle of the 19th century, the main professional bodies governing linguistic research formally banned any investigation into the origins of language, regarding it as pointless.