有语言家说，英语“Ghoti”一词甚至可以读作“fish”：因为gh在“cough”中念“f”，o在“women”中念“i”，ti在“motion”中念“ sh ”。

"Ghoti," as wordsmiths have noted, could be pronounced "fish" : gh as in "cough", o as in "women" and ti as in "motion".

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我的公司做过的最好的事情之一，就是与一家提供电话翻译的语言服务公司签订了合同。

One of the best things my company has done is to contract with a language service that offers translations over the phone.

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这些理论家认为语言是模仿的、习得的行为。

These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior.

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Cummings actually boldly experimented with this principle and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Dell Hymes.

对此，卡明斯做了一个大胆的试验,吸引了语言学家的注意，特别是德尔海默斯。

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This then is the object of Saussure's attention as a linguist and as a semiotician.

这就是索绪尔所注意到的,作为一个符号学家兼语言学家。

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And human language uses this amazing trick described by Ferdinand de Saussure, the great linguist, as "The arbitrariness of the sign."

人类语言使用这些,被语言学家费迪南德·德·索绪尔,称之为"符号任意性"的神奇把戏

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