Brown based the grammar for his ten-thousand-word language, called Loglan, on the rules of formal predicate logic used by analytical philosophers.
So if the HRC says we're to eradicate the F-word from our language, just as the NAACP says we're to get rid of the N-word, then why do we allow the exceptions to the rule, and end up praising the offenders as friends of our communities?
Her requests have been criticized as rambling in nearly 100, 000-word documents containing language of personal invective that shocked legal experts and veterans of his courtroom.
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Here was this towering foreigner who knew not a word of his language and insisted on calling him Jimmy because she found his real name difficult to pronounce.
For example, the Hawaii Sign Language word for father is to wag your finger -- whereas in ASL, it's an open hand with fingers spread and a thumb to the forehead.
For their studies, the team studied the characteristics of word order in four language families: Indo-European, Uto-Aztec, Bantu and Austronesian.
They ranked the locations based on frequency of positive and negative words using the Mechanical Turk Language Assessment word list.
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"Modernization" may be the most dangerously misused word in the English language.
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In quarters where "elitist" is the dirtiest word in the English language, Buckley's very existence (the Bach, the ocean sailing) is a provocation.
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Ms Radinsky told MIT Technology Review that other useful websites included knowledge bases DBpedia and OpenCyc, and language database Word.
That's a word in the English language which could mean passionate.
The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.
Which brings us back to de Boinod's title: tingo is an invaluable word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left".
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You know how people who come from completely different cultures and backgrounds, people who might not even speak a single word of the same language, they might still be drawn together when their hearts are lifted by the notes of a song, or a vision on a canvas, or the graceful arc of a dance.
"Trademarks as opposed to use of a word in prose or everyday language are two very different things, " it said.
Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins English Dictionary, agrees the figurative and metaphorical use of the word crept into the English language as an intensifier.
The word normal is in the language for a reason.
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The word is embedded in our language at this point.
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The lost and confused are shown navigating their way through New York streets, the Golden Gate bridge, an airport and a ski hill to highlight Google's latest Maps and Now goodies, while a tourist all-too-happy with his Thai meal learns the word for delicious in that language using Google Translate.
His job is to lobby his former colleagues not to sign a letter that has that exact same language in it, word for word.
In addition, the learning materials also follow an integrated approach to literacy acquisition drawing on the benefits of the language experience and whole word approaches while taking seriously the recent findings of neuro-cognitive research.
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The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the officer had backed up the Sun's version of events and the language - including the word "pleb" - that Mr Mitchell was reported to have used.
The program then destroys a host of files based on file extension, specifically targeting C language code files, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, among others.
"As we are here in England, and dealing with the language of business, every word needs to be analysed with great care, " the newspaper's British correspondent writes.
"Occupy" is the top word of 2011, according to the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language.
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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She says that many birth parents in Uganda don't fully understand what adoption actually means and that there is no word for 'adoption' in the local Luganda language.
Taveras' plan will make use of a pager-sized recorder put in a child's pocket that acts as a language pedometer, recording every conversation and word spoken to them through the course of their day.
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