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Sociologists, psychologists, rhetoricians, linguists, and historians of science have all noted the importance of language, metaphor, and definition to our very understanding of the world around us.
Maybe I have spent too much time in post- linguistic turn academia, but the importance of language in general, and definition and metaphor more specifically, is not exactly a new or particularly controversial position.
And what humanists, social scientists, natural scientists, and military professionals too are all learning is that our use of language, metaphor, and definition shapes our understanding of the problems we seek to solve, opening some possible options for solutions while simultaneously closing off others.
"It is the case that at about 3200 BC the first cuneiform tablets were written that we really do recognise as being representations of language, that being the standard definition of writing, " he said.
The definition is fluid, but popular culture, language, film, music and mass media all certainly fit the bill, and China is making or at least trying to make inroads on all those fronts around the world.
The atlas's authors said the earlier definition was not a "true reflection" of the language's status.
Once you click it, you can then swipe your finger across any text area to look up definition or translation, and you can choose your desired target language in the app's settings.
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That may be the closest thing to a simple explanation the government ever gave, but if you want to see how incredibly complicated the official definition is in the law itself, check out the language.
First, the unchanged language of the FS-X agreements provides essentially no definition for technical data.
Double tapping on a word reveals its definition, and you've got a choice of ten different language dictionaries.
According to Dictionary.com, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, included the term with essentially the same definition in 2000.
When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
We had to artificially limit our definition of "tool" to hand-wielded implements, which meant no one could vote for "language"--arguably the most important tool of all.
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