He is a man who sometimes tortures the English language, puzzling audiences with references to the "vile" hemisphere (instead of "vital") and tailpipe "admissions" ("emissions"), and mystifying a group of New Hampshire schoolchildren during Perseverance Month when he earnestly counseled them, "You've got to preserve," as if they should all rush out to can tomatoes.
Lewis argues that this model can make sense of a number of otherwise puzzling features of language.
Deutscher starts with the puzzling fact that many languages lack words for what (to English speakers) seem to be basic colors.
This is a strange new variant of the classic indie romantic outsider sound: impressive, loud, unapologetically in love with the English language, but puzzling and chewy with it.
Clarity was not always a feature of Anita's language.Of the puzzling events of her life the one most remembered was going to Algeria to meet Eldridge Cleaver, a black leader wanted in the United States for attempted murder.
One puzzling feature of the Khoisan languages is that, despite some uniformity in their use of clicks, they differ considerably among themselves in aspects such as word formation, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
Among the most puzzling are the following: why does language occur only in humans, appearing relatively rapidly and recently in evolutionary terms, along with no apparent genomic change since its emergence?
The story in the Secret History is too puzzling in its brevity and its allusive language to permit a reliable explanation.
The left's inability to master this new populist language is all the more puzzling, given that technology is one issue where rightwing populists such as Trump and Ukip have little to offer.
Not everyone agrees that Pama-Nyungan is one family, however, for, like other Australian language families, it presents a puzzling pattern of similarities and differences.
