NEPTUNE - JERSEY pride often presents itself in the spoken equivalent of a pinstripe suit, with stiff-collared suburbanites puncturing arguments that this state -- and not Mississippi or Alabama -- is the true heir to the title "armpit of the nation".
A politician or media identity who would be laughed out of office if they said "vaccines don't work" or "I am certain the moon is made of cheese" happily speak equivalent rubbish on climate science, believing their views deserve credit.
And sign language, Corballis says, contains the same properties syntax and semantics—as its spoken equivalent: "All of the characteristics we normally attribute to language are true of sign language.
Rigorously speaking, Eq. 11 is equivalent to Eq. 10 only if the bathymetry is flat (∂h/∂x = 0, ∂h/∂y = 0).
Like a spoken word equivalent of YouTube, Audioboo has high-profile users from Stephen Fry and Chris Moyles to Channel 4 News, the Open University, the British Library and the Guardian, which used it to cover the G20 protests.
Guido Fawkes, roughly speaking the British equivalent of America's Drudge Report, boasts of breaking stories and is certainly resented by some mainstream journalists.
The Tragically Hip are, roughly speaking, Canada's equivalent to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band a proletarian group with an intellectual sensibility.
