Sentence examples for superficial language from inspiring English sources

If you saturate your children with superficial language, they will edit their communication away from authenticity.

But it's a misconception that the central conflict within identity politics is about superficial language, about the Most Correct Terminology with which to discuss marginalized people.

I think that all of my interactions with Americans are superficial because of language barriers.

Everett had to bridge many such cultural gaps in order to gain more than a superficial grasp of the language.

"But until recently, have our computers have had a very superficial understanding of natural language.

A small number of discrete choices ('parameters') embedded within a system of otherwise universal principles create the extensive superficial differences between unrelated languages like English, Japanese, and Mohawk.

The policy "has already been active in the Tibet Autonomous Region for several years and has led to well-known results: students destined for senior positions in the public or private sectors now have only a superficial knowledge of their own language and civilization," said the scholars.

Although English has a number of evocative German loan words like kitsch and wanderlust, Americans seldom study German in high school or college, and as a result, our feeling for German as a language is largely superficial and often freighted with negative clichés derived from wartime cinema where German characters bark orders and insults.

The grammatical structures of the various Uralic languages, despite numerous superficial differences, generally indicate a basic Early Uralic sentence structure of (subject) + (object) + main verb + (auxiliary verb)—the parenthesized elements are optional, and the last element is the finite (inflected) verb, which is suffixed to agree with the subject in person and number.

His instructions to students were short and superficial, with hardly a word about language or diction.

The two men said that they often talked to Mr. Wong during breaks, but that the language barrier meant mostly superficial conversations.