Like the current Bond movie, it lacked the linguistic appeal I had come to expect.
Hitchings sometimes casts himself as Candide, viewing with dismay the vile underbelly of the linguistic world.
It's not in our economic or national security interest to build walls around us, even of the linguistic kind.
For millennia, such clues are almost all that the linguistic historian has to go on.
But there is also a language-mediated one, as shown by the linguistic side's greater response.
This, Palmer argued, could be the linguistic route of the American term boogie.
No single party bridges the linguistic and geographic gulf between Belgium's two regions.
Happily, neither author is trapped in the linguistic chauvinism that the English all too often attribute to the French.
In the rapid-fire exchanges between debaters on news shows, "absolutely" is the linguistic version of an exclamation point, Thompson says.
The importance of gathering information on such minority languages was emphasised by Professor Peter Ladefoged, a member of the endangered languages committee of the Linguistic Society of America.
"If you look carefully you see that he is using the linguistic foundations he developed in comedic writing and putting them to different uses in tragic writing, " says Witmore.
The smidgen less that people will hear profanity on Main Street will transform the linguistic environment about as much as a cold drink makes you think it isn't actually hot.
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.
To do so he looked at three well-studied parts of the linguistic family tree: the Bantu languages of Africa, the Indo-European group from Eurasia and the Austronesians of the Pacific.
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So, although the linguistic and genetic arguments for the early arrival of the first Americans are clever, it looks as though the guys with the trowels might be right, after all.
Instead, Facebook feeds any political commentary in status messages into a text analysis software program, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, which determines whether what you said was positive or negative.
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But it does nothing to establish a native capacity that generates correct judgments about the morality of action in the same way the linguistic capacity generates correct judgments about the grammaticality of sentences.
Libya's interim "constitutional declaration, " drawn up by the NTC to provide a framework for the transition to an elected government, pledged that the state would protect the linguistic and cultural rights of "all components" of Libyan society.
In his gloominess, Charlemagne missed an important point: the linguistic unification of Europe can yield economic returns in addition to the cultural and social ones enjoyed by those of us who speak English, whether or not it is our first language.
The proportion of those interviewed who could speak Welsh was higher than that in the general population, but the results were then adjusted to make them reflect the linguistic make-up of Wales, where just under 19% of the population can speak Welsh.
Indeed, one of the foundational linguistic theories of the twentieth century, which came to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, was based in part on the work of Benjamin Whorf, an inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance company.
The Conference is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia with support of the UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation, Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO) and in partnership with the Armenian Linguistic University "Interlingua" and the Russian Institute for Cultural Research.
To recognize the importance of linguistic diversity, the UNESCO General Conference proclaimed International Mother Language Day (IMLD) in November 1999.
Boulevard Saint-Laurent acts as an unofficial buffer zone between the two linguistic communities where both languages are readily spoken.
As a result, the oral and linguistic traditions of this ethnicy community in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation were severely endangered.
The officials, linguistic and behavioral experts who have been analyzing the three known anthrax letters, made their assessments more than a month after the first anthrax outbreak in Florida, where no letter was ever recovered -- and at a time of growing congressional frustration over the lack of progress in the investigation.
These discussions must be also seen in connection with the concept of linguistic and cultural heritage of humanity, as embodied by the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2001).
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