The United States has no official language.

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If love has no place in the language of business, neither does passion.

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He who controls the language of debate has already won, no matter how inappropriate or ridiculous. (I cite as an example of the latter the discussion of unemployment benefits as a form of stimulus that will restore the economy to health).

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Mr Sinn's new work is a thoroughly updated English-language version of a German book that has gone through no fewer than 11 editions.

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Sardinian is not widely taught in schools on the Italian island and has a largely oral tradition, which means there is currently no standardised form of the language.

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Though no one has yet proved the case, it looks as though the evolution of language and the evolution of theory of mind might not only be two sides of the same coin, but might actually be different specialisations of the same basic structure.

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How would it be possible, considering that the Obama administration has scrubbed its official language clean of any unflattering reference whatsoever to Islam and will brook no criticism of it?

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The Commission Generale de Terminologie et de Neologisme has decreed that hashtag will be no more, in a further bid to stop English invading the language.

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The hype has been helped in no small part by controversy around the R-rated film's excessive violence and language, much of which is doled out by actress Chloe Grace Moretz, who was 11 when she played the role of Hit Girl.

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Mr Atlas has no doubt, however, of Mr Bellow's stature as a writer: his unique vitality of mind and language bursts out of every quotation.

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