Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
The findings of our research are pretty tripped out-the idea that one's perception, or at least one's perception, or at least one's perceptual discrimination, of the world may differ by visual field. Our paper is the first to propose that language may shape just half of our visual world.
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
The failure of The Aunt's Story and the need to learn a language afresh made me wonder whether I should ever write another word.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
And I ask: For the depths,
Of what use is language?
They'll raise a quarter-point today and in December, but it would not surprise us if there was some sort of language change that they're near the end of rate hikes, ... It will be a headwind for the market until we get some sort of indication about being at a neutral rate.
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
To say to first- and second-generation immigrants to Britain that they should 'go back to where they came from,' that is the kind of language one would expect from one end of the political spectrum.
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant.
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
One of the major challenges our government faces in the post-911 world is the ability to rapidly process information in a large variety of languages,
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
We speak five languages, ... The problem is, my second language is profanity.
But I want first of all in fact as an end to these other desires to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want in factto borrow from the language of the saints to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.
I have a good ear for languages.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.
Why does Beethoven appeal and continue to appeal Other than the obvious (his having written great music), Beethoven communicates a credo so effectively that the listener finds the courage he needs to reaffirm his own belief in the purpose of life. Beethoven stiffens the fiber of our commitment in a language that is beauty itself, in a statement as open as a Greek temple. Friend Beethoven is the one friend we shall always have.
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Which language, after all, is yours?
A lot of people ask me if we're aiming at English-speaking Muslims. But we actually want to appeal to the whole English-speaking world and those who speak English as a second language.
I'm going to miss being cursed at in 12 different languages.
Many of our Latino kids, that we have in our system, are brilliant kids.... but, we as a system have placed a value judgement that unless they can do it in our language, we don't give them credit for it.
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.
Music, the universal language of mankind, is also a form of beauty at its best. As language differs among peoples, so does the language of music differ with time, place, background and experience but if it is true music, it strikes a responsive chord. In a Japanese home at Christmas-time, I was the only person in the group who spoke English. Yet ways of communication were found. Thinking of home, I hummed softly to myself, 'Silent Night.' To my surprise, the French guest, the German guest and the Japanese family joined in singing the universally inspiring Christmas song, each in his own language, yet in the same language, the language of the heart.
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
We want the referees to be a team and they should all be able to speak and write a common language.
When an immigrant is unable to read the language, they miss opportunities in the community.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
In some classes, its talked about like a foreign language. Some people now say they finally ate tofu and liked it
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
Arabs respect only the language of force.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Nothing is done until the language is fully reviewed,
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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