Sentence examples for strange linguistic from inspiring English sources

In this strange linguistic wonderland, it is antisemitic to argue that anti-Zionism is not antisemitic.

Grinspoon agreed: "The strange linguistic trick of saying it is 'a dwarf planet and a dwarf planet is not a planet', that just seemed vindictive".

As it now quietly celebrates its two-hundredth anniversary, Angus M'Diarmid's slender 1815 masterpiece belongs to that same rare class of unintentional humor as "English as She Is Spoke" — the would-be reference work, written by an author whose second language was English, that achieves a strange linguistic greatness.

Yet so compelling is Oyelowo's performance that we forget the strange linguistic constraints around which the film is dancing, the delivery convincing and heartfelt enough to make us believe that we are hearing an authentic voice rallying the crowds in the churches, the streets, and (thanks to television) the living rooms of America.

Many are intimidated by local hostilities, while others wrestle with cultural challenges: new school subjects, strange cuisine and even stranger linguistic quirks.

This is strange, because the argument that linguistic changes are just like changes in style and taste is a serious one; "there is no more reason for languages to change than there is for automobiles to add fins one year and remove them the next, for jackets to have three buttons one year and two the next" said Paul Postal in 1968.

Turns out I like the strange peace of living in a linguistic bubble.

Considering his linguistic indulgences, some might think it strange that Psutka favours a lyric-less, often beat-less style of music.

McWhorter is a kind of linguistic David Attenborough, observing with an awed enthusiasm all the strange varieties and ingenious adaptations of the 6,000 or so human languages supposedly being spoken on the planet at this moment.

It's not about reading irrelevant plays in a strange language because your mum and dad did; it's about understanding our linguistic heritage and even how we think about where personality itself comes from.

The quartet of actors range freely across Gibson's linguistic playground, but Da'Vine Joy Randolph, as an ambitious opera extra, steals the show, giving one of the strangest, giddiest, and best comic performances of the season.