So, if linguistic diversity increases with time, then Africa, where humanity evolved, and Asia, its first staging-post to world domination, should be the greatest Babels.
This would not be the first time a bit of linguistic circumlocution got the country out of a revenue bind.
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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.
This is usually due to capitalize on benefits of proximity which include time zones, cultural and linguistic similarities, and political factors.
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Small wonder that Mrs May did her level linguistic best this week to demote a time-dated political promise to an open-ended aim.
With an ICANN meeting set for later this month in Puerto Rico, the time has come to prioritise linguistic diversity on the Internet by giving multilingual domains the attention they deserve.
But this time the vote also bridged the linguistic divide between them and their German-speaking countrymen: in Zurich, the most populous canton, no less than 70% of voters said yes.
So should someone with good linguistic ability who studies Mandarin in China full-time for three years.
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But both style and linguistic acrobatics get erased by translation and go stale with the passage of time.
Time to dust off the old resume or give it a complete linguistic overhaul.
Indeed, when Dr Nettle crunched a few numbers, he found that the length of time an area has been settled is inversely, rather than directly, related to the number of linguistic stocks occurring there.
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