Sentence-by-sentence interpreting requires less memorization and therefore lower likelihood for omissions, yet its disadvantage is in the interpreter's not having heard the entire speech or its gist, and the overall message is sometimes harder to render both because of lack of context and because of interrupted delivery ( for example, imagine a joke told in bits and pieces, with breaks for translation in between ).

In reviewing an incident so important in the history of the Transvaal as the appointment of the Potchefstroom assembly it is of interest to note the gist of the complaint among the Boers which led to this revolution in the government of the country as it had previously existed.

Arguably, had he not done this, the gist of what was said would not otherwise be known at all — whereas today there is a plethora of documentation — written records, archives and recording technology for historians to consult.

) About ' Aristocracy in art ' - art is not for all but only for the chosen few-but the only way to find those few is to bring art to everyone-then the artists have a sort of masonic signal by which they recognise each other in the crowd-he put it much better than that-but that is the gist .</ p >

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

The gist of the dialogue is that Modesty and Willie plan to unearth a treasure ( the one left buried at the end of the book A Taste for Death ) and anonymously donate it to the Salvation Army, and to take a break from adventuring.

The gist ... is explicit and intelligent: the lure of the city, of civilization, of style and order and bourgeois living is real, for elephants as for humans.

This is usually accounted for by source-monitoring error, where a person can recall specific facts, but cannot correctly identify the source of that knowledge because of apparent loss of the association between the episodic ( specific experience, or source ) and semantic ( concept-based, or gist ) accounts of the stored knowledge.

The gist of the following elementary proof is due to Paul Erd &# 337 ; s. The basic idea of the proof is to show that a certain central binomial coefficient needs to have a prime factor within the desired interval in order to be large enough.

The gist of the RG is this group property: as the scale μ varies, the theory presents a self-similar replica of itself, and any scale can be accessed similarly from any other scale, by group action, a formal conjugacy of couplings in the mathematical sense ( Schröder's equation ).

" The gist of his argument is expressed in a single sentence:

The story is written in a gist.

The gist is that al-Qaeda's efforts have been counterproductive and used as " subterfuge " by some Western countries to extend their regional ambitions.

As Lord Mustill famously held in R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Doody ( 1993 ): " Since the person affected usually cannot make worthwhile representations without knowing what factors may weigh against his interests fairness will very often require that he is informed of the gist of the case which he has to answer.

He or she must also be told what is at stake ; in other words, the gist of the case.

Instead, what is stored in semantic memory is the " gist " of experience, an abstract structure that applies to a wide variety of experiential objects and delineates categorical and functional relationships between such objects.

The gist of the signed memorandum was " This programme for eliminating the war-making industries in the Ruhr and in the Saar is looking forward to converting Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in its character.

The gist of the grant is recounted as follows:

The gist of Kant's position is that even though we cannot know whether there are final causes in nature, we are constrained by the peculiar nature of the human understanding to view organisms teleologically.

He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties ( neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka ( часту ́ шка ), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song ) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage.

The accompanying haiku may have a direct or subtle relationship with the prose and encompass or hint at the gist of what is recorded in the prose sections.

The gist of the book is the philosophy of a child who has the wisdom to comprehend more than what would be expected of her.

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

* December 18, the Belgian newspapers were in an uproar on the theme of a violation of the principle of the separation of powers, with an advanced position taken up by Yves Desmet, who draws the conclusion that the government was aware of the gist of the ruling two days beforehand and had instituted a diversionary manoevre ( a frivolous request by FPIM on Thursday ) to derail the ruling.

In 1292, there was a slight tendency to regard the detainer rather than the bailment as the gist of the action, where is was stated " it is not enough to say, ' you did not bail to me ' defense, but one must add, ' and I do not detain it of the chattel from you.

Terry Jacks intended to " lighten up " his version of McKuen's " Seasons in the Sun "— completely removing the cynical gist of Brel's " Le moribond ".

The presentation opens with Cage and Dern engaging in a telephone conversation, the gist of which is that he is breaking up with her, to her great sorrow.

The writ was a command to the defendant that he should deliver up to the plaintiff the chattels ‘’ quae ei injuste detinet ’‘-“ which he unlawfully withholds from him .” The gist of the action was the unlawful detention by the defendant.

Though Elsa falsely reported the gist of this conversation, she did mention that Caroline had said to Amyas ' you and your women ', showing Poirot that in fact Elsa was in the same category as all of Amyas's other, discarded mistresses.

Why, Mr Carrington, I have never read Lancelin's work, but if you have given the gist of it in your book, then I can write a book on the things that Lancelin does not know !".

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

Camouflage is a form of visual deception ; the term probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke.

The Acme :: hierarchy is reserved for joke modules ; for instance, Acme :: Don't adds a function that doesn't run the code given to it ( to complement the built-in, which does ).

This is the world of the midnight feast, the practical joke, and the social interaction of the various types of character.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

While Megalon and Gigan are still remembered by fans and reused in many videogames, Jet Jaguar is sometimes seen as more of a joke or a spinoff of Ultraman.

) In the second instance, Banks is preparing for an Easter service and attempts to show off his prowess by singing the last two lines of the chorus ; Smith jokingly replies with his own version, in which he makes a joke about Carlton's height.

Before the launch of tubgirl. com, this image was featured in a rotten. com story " Fecal Japan " claiming that the subject matter is popular in Japan, and in a San Francisco Chronicle article by author Violet Blue, as well as being the subject of a joke by Gizmodo.

I doubt if there is a single joke in the whole play that fits the Japanese.

The joke is that Chase was more interested in fixing up cars while Goober often offered to go out with the girls instead ... only for the women to ignore his requests and look disgusted.

Since nothing is known about the life of this Homer, the common joke — also recycled with regard to Shakespeare — has it that the poems " were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.

An often-repeated mathematical joke is that topologists can't tell their coffee cup from their donut, since a sufficiently pliable donut could be reshaped to the form of a coffee cup by creating a dimple and progressively enlarging it, while shrinking the hole into a handle.

* TPPCPPC, Third Person Plural Conditional Past Perfect Continuous-a complicated tense, which makes use of a lot of auxiliary verbs, that has become a standing joke since its inclusion in ' Third Person Plural Conditional Past Perfect Continuous Song Lyrics ', an idea that is sadly no more.

In the sequel the number five is crossed out and replaced by the number three, referring to the repeated joke about Arthur's miscounting.

* Hack ( comedy ), a joke, or premise for a joke, that is considered obvious, frequently used, and / or stolen.

The importance of non-native English language skills can be recognised behind the long-standing joke that the international language of science and technology is broken English.

A classic example is the well-known " you have two cows " joke — after circulating in other media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism.

" You have two cows " is the beginning phrase for a series of political joke definitions.

A lightbulb joke is a joke that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb.