What is language?

什么是语言？

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What is language for? Some people seem to think it is for practicing grammar rules and learning lists of words — the longer the words the better.

语言到底是用来干什么的呢？一些人认为它是用来操练语法规则和学习一大堆单词——而且单词越长越好。

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What is language for? Some people seem to think it's for practicing grammar rules and learning lists of words — the longer the words the better.that's?

语言到底是用来干什么的呢？一些人认为它是用来操练语法规则和学习一大堆单词——而且单词越长越好。

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Jansen has worked in the Internet industry since 1994 and agrees with Crystal that what we're seeing is more ways to use language to communicate.

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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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In other words, language, according to Derrida, in the Saussurian tradition seems to privilege sound over script, over what is graphic.

换句话说，德里达认为，在索绪尔的理论中，音响比文字，更具优势。

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For him, the pocket-sized device is to 3Com what the Java programming language is to Sun, a Silicon Valley computer firm: the crown jewels.

ECONOMIST: 3Com

The data released on Wednesday named about 100 languages in response to the question, 'what is your main language?

BBC: Census data on languages in Manchester is 'way out'

What is true in one language should not be untrue (or uncertain) in another language for the same encyclopedia.

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