"Everything from basic language skills of agreement of subject and verb, use of commas and other punctuation, complete and incomplete sentences, so that we can move from basic writing/language skills to the more sophisticated skills that graduate students, upper level undergraduates and people in the work world use."

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By the way, in what I'm saying, I oversimplify by supposing that the basic unit of language is a word.

因为我想说的是，我们现在是把语言的基本单位简单化了。

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If you want to use the Nietzschean language, "transvaluation" of our most basic vocabulary about good and evil.

如果你想套用尼采的话，“重新评估“我们关于,善恶最基本的字汇。

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But, you know, the formalists' own basic distinctions are dualistic, aren't they: the distinction between poetic and practical language, the distinction between plot and story, the distinction between rhythm and meter?

但是，形式主义所认为的区别却是双重标准的，诗歌语言和实用语言的区别，情节和故事的区别，节奏和韵律的区别？

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So, here are some basic facts about language development.

下面是与语言发展有关的一些基本事实

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Sometimes the basic unit is the phrase, but some other times the basic unit is the phoneme or if one's studying language as a system of writing it might be the syllable.

有时候基本单位是一个词组，有时候则是一个音素,也就是在写作的研究中的,一个音节。

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We'll first go over some basic facts about language.

我们将首先温习一些语言的基本事实

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