Remind them that words have meaning and consequences--even idle chitchat.
In simple words: meaning and relevancy.
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He says he doesn't sing the songs that have religious words or meaning, and he notes, rightly, that many of the most famous "Christmas" songs are better described as winter songs many of them written by Jews.
You can identify these statements by the fact that they use words such as "anticipate, " "estimate, " "expect, " "project, " "intend, " "should, " "plan, " "goal, " "believe, " and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance.
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Precisely because body size has become a personal, social and political issue, the use and meaning of words to describe it is important.
One can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "expected, " "planning, " "possibility, " "opportunity, " "goal, " "will, " "may, " "intend, " "anticipates, " "working toward" and other words of similar meaning.
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She challenged students to express their feelings about the meaning of the words and whether the writer's ideas worked.
Derived from the German words "ost" meaning east and "nostalgie", the term refers to a nostalgic yearning for the old German Democratic Republic.
Once he has been accepted, Dr Kaufman and his colleagues start chipping away at the language's phonology (the sounds of which it is composed) and its syntax (how its meaning is changed by the order of words and phrases).
His hold on the media has changed attitudes and even the meaning of words.
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As the Delhi (India) native thanked delegates for selecting her as the winner of the International Year of Water Cooperation slogan contest and adopting her message as the official 2013 slogan, she said it was important for humanity to understand the deeper meaning behind her words, and work towards resolving transboundary issues involving water sharing.
"The thing that struck me when I put together this list was that 90% of the top 100 words were one syllable, and that a large proportion were actually from Old English, meaning the basic words we use all the time in basic sentences are from before the Norman Conquest, " he said.
Brubeck's words about jazz and democracy take on even more meaning with the recent presidential election.
Using the same techniques, Roitblat says, a computer can be made to understand words and phrases that can have more than one meaning.
If, at the other extreme, it assumed that people seek to satisfy their preferences (or some such formula), then it would be true merely by virtue of the meaning of the words and it would not tell you anything.
Yet music, so pure and abstract, contains meaning even without words.
Mistakenly, most PR execs are convinced the world lives and dies on the pages of media such as The Wall Street Journal, and lean toward using speakisms such as "strategic, " "results-oriented, " and "synergies, " words that have little meaning to actual human beings.
As long as no meaning is lost, fewer and shorter words are always less bad than the alternative.
And you have to play with the words to convey your meaning in the limited space.
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But for millions of people - and most of them are women - these words have no meaning, literally.
This has been stated by a majority of scholars, and is included in the general meaning of the words that ruling by a law which is not the law of Allah is disbelief in Allah (kufr).
And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.
In other words, Mr Havel spun a good line in well-meaning and unexceptionable waffle.
But for millions of people and most of them are women these words have no meaning, literally.
People know anywhere from 50, 000 to 100, 000 words, each of them an arbitrary pairing between a sound and a meaning.
The BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the High Court "meaning hearing" was held in front of a judge and involved both sides arguing over the meaning of the words in the tweet.
When you are forced to compress your message into fewer words, each word works harder, carries more meaning on its shoulders and, accordingly, becomes more important and interesting.
The second is the ability to combine words according to rules in such a way that the meaning of the combination is predictable from the meanings of the words and the way they are arranged.
Glocal, meaning to be at once global and local, is one of those words management gurus like to coin.
Artificial intelligence researchers at RPI want to do things like improve Watson's mathematical ability and help it quickly figure out the meaning of new or made-up words.
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