A long evolution in an oral tradition caused the poetic language of the heroic age to be based upon formulas that show the important qualities of things, and these formulas are therefore potentially rather than always actually accurate.

Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolated ethnic, regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material.

This example demonstrates the oral tradition of the Homeric epics that flourished long before they were written down sometime in the 7th century BC.

One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers ; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time.

In the Sanskrit oral tradition, there was much emphasis on how long ( L ) syllables mix with the short ( S ), and counting the different patterns of L and S within a given fixed length results in the Fibonacci numbers ; the number of patterns that are m short syllables long is the Fibonacci number F < sub > m + 1 </ sub >.

Research into oral epics in Serbo-Croatian and Turkic languages, pioneered by the aforementioned Parry and Lord, began convincing scholars that long poems could be preserved with consistency by oral cultures until they are written down.

According to aboriginal oral traditions, as well as archaeological evidence, maple tree sap was being processed into syrup long before Europeans arrived in the region.

Methadone, with its long half-life ( and thus long duration of effect ) and good oral bioavailability, is a common second-choice drug for pain that does not respond to weaker agonists.

Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written histories.

There is a long history of oral transmission of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism.

This strictly oral tradition continued for a long while.

Muslim oral tradition preserves numerous sayings, or hadith, in which Muhammed describes the difference between the light of false dawn, appearing in the sky long after sunset, and the light of the first band of horizontal light at sunrise, the true dawn.

The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the written page.

An oral law, intended as a body of rules, can be admitted in jurisprudence as long as it shows some efficacy, therefore it needs that the law is public, the human action is evaluated by a judge ( ordinarily producing a sentence according to the general interpretation of the law ) and then a punishment has eventually to be put into effect.

Thus, the Maasai, according to their own oral history, migrated south from the lower Nile valley north of Lake Turkana in about the 15th century, arriving in a long trunk of land stretching from what is now northern Kenya to what is now central Tanzania during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The first he called " formulas ": " rosy-fingered dawn ", " the wine-dark sea ", and other specific set phrases had long been known of in Homer and other oral epics.

In a general sense, " oral tradition " refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore ( a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists ).

Reduction of inflammation through the use of oral glucocorticoids such as, prednisone, followed by long term topical glucocorticoid nasal spray would easily and safely treat the anosmia.

Because the Afro-American religions were transmitted as part of a long oral tradition, there are many regional variations on the goddess's name.

Hearsay information can even be obtained by oral testimony given over a telephone, or through an anonymous or confidential informant, so long as probable cause exists based on the totality of the circumstances.

Black Pepper ( or perhaps long pepper ) was believed to cure illness such as constipation, diarrhea, earache, gangrene, heart disease, hernia, hoarseness, indigestion, insect bites, insomnia, joint pain, liver problems, lung disease, oral abscesses, sunburn, tooth decay, and toothaches.

Maori oral history tells of a long voyage from Hawaiki ( the mythical homeland in tropical Polynesia ) in large ocean-going canoes ( waka ).

Kiernan ’ s argument against an early dating based on a mixture of forms is long and involved, but he concludes that the mixture of forms points to a comparatively straightforward history of the written text as:

The book ’ s argument is that Germany is not prepared economically for a long war but might win a lightning war.

This argument has a long history, and can be traced back at least as far as Cicero's De Natura Deorum ii. 34.

There has been some argument by modern scholars over the long jump.

In the theory of formal languages in computability theory, a pumping lemma or pumping argument states that, for a particular language to be a member of a language class, any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section, or sections, that can be removed, or repeated any number of times, with the resulting string remaining in that language.

It is often this final conclusion, the result of the long process, that is meant when the term paradigm shift is used colloquially: simply the ( often radical ) change of worldview, without reference to the specificities of Kuhn's historical argument.

In this case, the justification of any statement is used, perhaps after a long chain of reasoning, in justifying itself, and the argument is circular.

The distinction is important because there is a long history of argument about UG *, whereas most people working on language agree that there is Universal Grammar.

A counter argument is that keeping the innards secret may improve security in the short term, but in the long run only systems that have been published and analyzed should be trusted.

In 1972, Derrida wrote " Signature Event Context ," an essay on J. L. Austin's speech act theory ; following a critique of this text by John Searle in his 1977 essay Reiterating the Differences, Derrida wrote the same year Limited Inc abc ..., a long defense of his earlier argument.

They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 which found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug ( Co-phenotrope, Lomotil ) caused people to stay feverish twice as long as those not so treated.

In a concession to Roosevelt, a " cash-and-carry " provision that had been devised by his advisor Bernard Baruch was added: the President could permit the sale of materials and supplies to belligerents in Europe as long as the recipients arranged for the transport and paid immediately in cash, with the argument that this would not draw the U. S. into the conflict.

During the debate, the contribution of British airborne forces in the Far Eastern theatres was perhaps underplayed, to the long term detriment of the argument.

One argument is that the poem was written to celebrate Byrhtnoth's actions and goad others into heroic action, and Byrhtnoth's action stands proudly in a long tradition of heroic literature.

The dating of the poems has been a lively source of scholarly argument for a long time.

* There has been a long argument that Garfield might be an Exotic Shorthair, because of his shape and his cobby build.

However, the decision relied on Unix's ability to pass long argument lists efficiently through the exec system call that csh uses to create child processes.

The Haredi community defends this practice with the argument that Judaism must cultivate Torah scholarship in the same way that the secular academic world does, no matter how high the costs may be financially in the short run, in the long run the Jewish people will benefit from the large number of learned laymen, scholars, and rabbis.

An argument can be made that a console system remains largely untouched by modchips as long as their manufacturers provide a legitimate way of running unlicensed third-party software.

In 1916, after a long argument with the Genrō, Ōkuma resigned as well, and retired from politics permanently, although he remained a member of the Upper House of the Diet of Japan until 1922.

He doubted the validity of induction long before its best known critic David Hume, and raised the regress argument against all forms of reasoning:

There was a long lasting argument between the two provinces known as the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute.

There was much argument about which logo should be used on official publications, with the new square logo favoured for a long time by the Head Office.

Many scholars ( for instance Kathleen Mcnamara ) have questioned the premises of the ICB argument, making the case that democratic pressures will not result in high inflation and that high inflation is not inherently bad for the economy long term.

Some say it is interesting to note that all the other people mentioned in the chronicle are real and this argument is often offered as evidence for the historicity of Arthur, Merlin and Mordred ; however, given that the entries, or at least the insertion of the names of Arthur and Merlin, could have been added arbitrarily as late as 970, long after the development of the early Arthurian myth, it cannot be taken as a particularly conclusive argument.