The source of it was a reflection by Ludwig Wittgenstein on the functions of words within language.
This is a book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology.
Beginning this year, the city will rely heavily on a test that mostly assesses spatial thinking skills and uses almost no words or language.
Jesus may have also salted his speech with puns on Aramaic words, the language of everyday communication.
"There aren't words in our language to describe the depth of his greatness, " Vince Gill said in a statement.
The technology considers the context of search, location, intent, word variation, synonyms, multiple meanings of words and foreign language to provide users with exactly what they are seeking.
After traveling between Paris and New York for two years, I went to Italy for the fashion season, unable to speak more than four words of the language, including grazie.
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Will Mr Brown confirm, in words or body language, the claim of his erstwhile rival, John Prescott, that chancellor and deputy prime minister are now thick as thieves in a partnership of Keynesian demand-managers?
They would argue that new translation tools from Google, Microsoft, and others herald a world in which a smartphone or Internet app instantly translates your words into the language of the listener on the other side of the call.
You know, he talked in length about how he interrogated her and in ways and in - as you see in the film - and in words and in language that's not something that's very pleasant for any rape victim or alleged rape victim to go through.
Wonder uses Nuance's speech-recognition tech to record and convert your words into text, and Yandex's own language software then processes those words (you can also type your queries, if you're so inclined).
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Each year, the Detroit-based university releases a list of the most unused words in the English language.
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Dr Michel first used his data to estimate the total number of words in the English language.
In other words, every foreign language film nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film lost the first award but won the second.
"Both college and minor league baseball fans are hoping that we will soon be able to celebrate (the bill's) approval and hear the three best words in the English language 'let's play ball, " said WVU athletic director Oliver Luck.
They've only heard liberation as a word, and suddenly, it's being presented to them and they have to now imagine the world that they live in in ways that were unimaginable to them, that they didn't have language and words to describe.
By the way, The study done by Mehrabian in 1979 on communication channels indicates that in face-to-face conversation, 55% of meaning is communicated via NVC, 7% via the verbal language (words) and 38% via the paralinguistics (Tone, timbre, speed of speaking, etc) and ALL THREE areas have to be taken into consideration when assessing communication.
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An evolution of the Hotwords technology announced in September, Swype Living Language uses crowdsourcing to analyze new words and phrases in real-time, continuously updating our language dictionaries.
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Written in the local Chichewa language, the words were a reference to the vendors carrying out the attacks, organizers said.
They ranked the locations based on frequency of positive and negative words using the Mechanical Turk Language Assessment word list.
One might add that before English settlers came to America, their language had absorbed words from many different places, too.
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The use of "hopefully" is no longer as controversial as it once was, there exists no shortage of words that trigger arguments amongst language formalists.
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The method starts by making use of well-established linguistic data on words and grammar within these language families, and building "family trees" of those languages.
The Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon in Brazil, whose language eschews number words in favor of terms like few and many, are not able to keep track of exact quantities.
You're highly skilled at mending kitchen leaks but you can't string two words together--in any language.
In the same vein, distortions of language can detach associated words from one another to change connotation.
These are the helots of language, busy little words like to and from, or by and with.
Initially, help desk applications will route users to the right technician using natural language understanding and key words.
The thing that struck me first was her warm and sparkling grin of greeting, and words of Malayalam, her only language, the tongue of her native Kerala.
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