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What a language!
Watching his son, Roy had been blown away by "the incredible sophistication of what a language learner in the flesh actually looks like and does".
I do think that a lot of my colleagues are still stuck on the old paradigm of what a language arts teacher is.
The British linguist Michael Hoey acknowledged as much in his groundbreaking book on recurring strings of words in the English language: "Even when writers are straining at the limits of what a language is capable of expressing, they make use of more of their primings than they reject.
His "examiner" must now help him to reconstruct a basic self: to understand the world, to understand the most fundamental things – what a language is, what a society is, what an individual is and how those things relate to the minutiae of life as lived.
Given this understanding of what a language is, Lewis goes on to say what it is for a population to speak a language.
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SEVERAL months ago, I pointed to the long-known fact that what's a "dialect" and what's a "language" is more often political than it is linguistic.
What a segregated language!
(I get a kick out of finding that out. What a rich language we speak, often without knowing its resonances).
"What a beautiful language," she thought.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com