Established by order of King Sejong in the mid-15th Century in a progressive effort to create an alphabet unique to the spoken idiom and, in doing so, break away from its foundation in Chinese ideograph, Hangul symbolically realizes Korea's cultural independence.
They are usually attempts to devise a standardised idiom out of a multiplicity of actually spoken idioms, which are thereafter downgraded to dialects".
The hysterical-leg paralysis that afflicted thousands of middle-class women in the late 19th century not only gives us a visceral understanding of the restrictions set on women's social roles at the time but can also be seen from this distance as a social role itself — the troubled unconscious minds of a certain class of women speaking the idiom of distress of their time.
Mr Chavez, a former paratrooper and coup leader who won a presidential election last December, speaks the idiom of state-led industrial development beloved of the Latin American nationalist caudillos of a generation ago.
Britten's dissonances may stretch and strain, but they tend to resolve into an established key, always speaking in an idiom that is sharply distinctive, immediately recognizable.
The Bible, as Desmond Tutu explained in the 2007 documentary For the Bible Tells Me So, "is the word of God through the words of human beings speaking in the idiom of their time".
(Donald Davidson developed a similar line of thought in a less behavioristic idiom, speaking in terms of constraints on a "Radical Interpreter," who seeks "charitable" construals of alien speech).
Because to really address this powerlessness: the kids coming home speaking in the idiom of rap, the people cutting their neighbours off in the church parking lot, the long harried days and unresponsive congressmen – these are all things both sides talk about, incidentally – we would have to be talking about tablet computers and cultural revolution, not the right to work.
Because to really address this powerlessness: the kids coming home speaking in the idiom of rap, the people cutting their neighbors off in the church parking lot, the long harried days and unresponsive congressmen these are all things both sides talk about, incidentally we would have to be talking about tablet computers and cultural revolution, not the right to work.
Part of engaging people is asking contemporary questions, speaking in a contemporary idiom.
