Sentence examples for word lengthening from inspiring English sources

"Word lengthening," achieved by reduplicating letters in texts, instant messages and emails, is a growing phenomenon, The Atlantic reports.

The grumbling that results when a word list lengthens is not so much about the inclusion of obscene or offensive words — though a cleaned-up list was controversially published in 1996, after someone protested the inclusion of "jew" as a verb.

If you're having trouble thinking of ways to make your words longer, you can use your computer's synonym tool to find a longer word to lengthen the line.

However, a much more elegant way is to scale each production according to its contribution to the length of the word generated, that is, productions lengthening the word by k will be scaled by c k. Since we consider CFGs, the lengthening of a production of the form A → α is given by | α| - 1.

In the literature, hallmark features of CVA listed include (a) inconsistent errors on consonants and vowels in repeated productions of syllables or words, (b) lengthened and disrupted coarticulatory transitions between sounds and syllables, and (c) inappropriate prosody, especially in the realization of lexical or phrasal stress [ 49].

For example, one is raising the pitch in the focused word/phrase, another is increasing the power, and another is lengthening the word [22].

Furthermore, while there will always be the "fat fingers" problem with simple unintentional typos, many of these spelling variants are intentional; for brevity, stylistic or emphasis purposes, texters deviate from standard spellings with acronyms, shortened/simplified versions of words and even lengthened variations.

In other words, if it lengthens the shelf-life of foods, there is a good chance it shortens the shelf-life of people eating those foods!

The No-Vita moniker is a play on the Vita console name and the Japanese word nobita, meaning "to lengthen or extend".

See if you can lengthen the word.

Lengthening since when?