The linguist and commentator says it doesn't make sense to try to save dying languages: At the end of the day, language death is, ironically, a symptom of people coming together.
At the end of the course, language learners were interviewed.
The 19th century "clearances" led to significant depopulation and the end of the Gaelic language and way of life.
But at the end of the day, the language that helps the religious describe and encounter the divine cannot be equated with precisely who and what the holy is.
"The one thing I won't give up is giving up," White says toward the end of the play, his language elevating and his curt sentences expanding into more elaborate musings.
And, indeed, the end of the bill amends the language of the Budget Control Act of 2011 -- the debt ceiling law that created the super committee -- so that the target of deficit reduction is raised from $1.5 trillion to $1.95 trillion.
If diplomatic relations were "in danger" with one of three countries, a coded phrase would be repeated as a special weather bulletin twice in the middle and twice at the end of the daily Japanese-language news broadcast.
We are currently considering ways to improve substitute decision makers' understanding, such as adding an appendix to the end of the booklet and simplifying the language used in the booklet.
("Journey to the End of the Night") While using language to persuasively undermine itself, this passage captures the essence of Céline's deepest comedy: the energy of the writing versus the sense of utter futility he conveys.
This scenario raises the possibility, already mentioned at the end of the last section, that language may have evolved so as to be learnable and usable by us, in addition to the converse scenario (stressed in much work on the evolution of language) that we had to change in many and complex ways in order to learn and use a language.
