Twitter no more sucks the life from modern language than the haiku destroyed the villanelle.
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Proposals include a requirement for new entrants to also have an SCQF 6 in a modern language.
Not everyone agrees that Twitter can be a positive force for modern language.
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The Curriculum for Excellence states it is important for the nation's prosperity that young people become confident users of a modern language.
He rails against the modern language of wine, which he describes as the worst sort of synthesis of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell and creating a club designed to exclude other people.
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They are maths and English, two sciences, a humanity (geography or history) and a modern foreign language.
This scenario implies that several variants of modern human language could have emerged somewhat independently in different locations, rather than solely in Africa.
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An epochal advance in literature was Dante's The Divine Comedy, wherein he single-handedly took a dialect of Latin and virtually created the modern Italian language.
WebM is supported by only 17% of browsers, according to VideoJS, a free video player written in HTML5, a modern web language designed to favor HTML5 video standards.
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Derek Bickerton, a linguist at the University of Hawaii, argues that if pre-modern humans had had language, this would have given them the ability to share complex information, and to co-operate in sophisticated ways.
The first, in the modern age in the English language, dates back to the 1540s.
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But the Cherokee tribe is no stranger to using modern technology to keep their language alive.
When completed, this tree had sprouted branches representing all the main language groups in modern Europe: Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and so on.
As Nassim Taleb points out, there is no word in English (or in any other language, ancient or modern) that conveys this idea.
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Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
This is one reason modern empires welcomed multilingualism and in fact invested in language schools for their personnel on the ground.
But in Rome the challenge is not to chop and squeeze the language into new shapes, but to translate modern words into the full, but precise, complexity that Latin requires.
Ever since the birth of modern computing, programmers have wanted to turn their machines into language processors.
The recommendations - made by the government's Modern Languages Working Group - also suggest that children should learn a third language no later than P5.
But the government's ambitions to extend language teaching to younger pupils will depend on tackling a shortage of modern languages teachers.
However, in terms of campaign techniques there was "no revolution, merely a positive rational 'reboot', conducted by Respect, of traditional techniques in a modern setting" aided by weak local parties and a rejection of the "hollow" political language of the larger parties.
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Dr Tony McEnery, of the University of Lancaster's Department of Linguistics, who has compiled a huge database of modern English usage, says children and teenagers are "quite productive" in their use of abusive language.
This month, the English language debut of the European bestseller by French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, "The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, " is already causing a stir.
The advent of modern optimizing compilers and many fold enhancements in computing hardware performance have now eliminated the need to use an assembly language in most applications and most applications are now written in higher level languages.
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