He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

The epic language was not entirely the servant of the poet ; ;

Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

the question was too wide for the sparse English language.

In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In doing so, Greenberg sought to emphasize the fact that Afroasiatic was the only language family that was represented transcontinentally, in both Africa and Asia.

Estimates of the date at which the Proto-Afroasiatic language was spoken vary widely.

During the 1960s the use of manual sign language grew greatly, but it was not until the 1980s that AAC began to emerge as an area in its own right.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood: form -- any unique sequence of alphabetic characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space ; ;

In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent to on Tuesday, there will be strong stress on by in the spoken language ; ;

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

The first three treatises form the core of the logical theory stricto sensu: the grammar of the language of logic and the correct rules of reasoning.

The first volume, Lautlehre (' Phonology '), contained the first comprehensive attempt to identify regular correspondences between the sound systems of the Altaic language families.

The first Tungusic language to be attested is Jurchen, the language of the ancestors of the Manchus.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

In the 1960s linguist William Stokoe created the first writing system for a sign language, the so-called Stokoe notation, which he designed specifically for ASL.

Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.

The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!

To define the Kolmogorov complexity, we must first specify a description language for strings.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

This very first generation of children created a new dialect that was to become the language of the nation.

The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

For this reason, the C programming language specifies that array indices always begin at 0 ; and many programmers will call that element " zeroth " rather than " first ".

Cover of first English language edition.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

Pragmatics and other aspects of the language not specified by Zamenhof's original documents were influenced by the native languages of early speakers, primarily Russian, Polish, German, and French.

The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language ( HDL ), similar to that used for an application-specific integrated circuit ( ASIC ) ( circuit diagrams were previously used to specify the configuration, as they were for ASICs, but this is increasingly rare ) in one package, employing technology developed for 3D construction and stacked-die assemblies.

Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today ; only Fortran is older ( by one year ).

The full language can be specified in a page of EBNF.

Some languages are defined by a specification document ( for example, the C programming language is specified by an ISO Standard ), while other languages, such as Perl 5 and earlier, have a dominant implementation that is used as a reference.

While syntax is commonly specified using a formal grammar, semantic definitions may be written in natural language ( e. g., as in the C language ), or a formal semantics ( e. g., as in Standard ML and Scheme specifications ).

* A reference or model implementation, sometimes written in the language being specified ( e. g., Prolog or ANSI REXX ).

They can be specified as statements in natural language, as drawn figures, as detailed mathematical formulas, and as a combination of them all.

* meet specified English, Welsh or Scottish Gaelic language competence standards.

The instructions constituting a program are rarely specified using their internal, numeric form ; they may be specified by programmers using an assembly language or, more commonly, may be generated by compilers.

The behavior and style of links can be specified using the Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS ) language.

Bison reads a specification of a context-free language, warns about any parsing ambiguities, and generates a parser ( either in C, C ++, or Java ) which reads sequences of tokens and decides whether the sequence conforms to the syntax specified by the grammar.

For example, the same machine language jump instruction can be generated by assembly code which jumps to a specified location ( for example, to execute specific code ), or which jumps by a specified number of bytes ( for example, to skip over an unwanted branch ).

Such practices include language codes ( governing slang, curse words, or speaking out of turn ), classroom etiquette ( sitting up straight, tracking the speaker ), personal dress ( uniforms, little or no jewelry ), and behavioral codes ( walking in lines, specified bathroom times ).

Using the proper subset of hardware description language, a program called a synthesizer ( or synthesis tool ) can infer hardware logic operations from the language statements and produce an equivalent netlist of generic hardware primitives to implement the specified behaviour.

Objects were addressed using a syntax close to natural language, where objects were specified relative to the current card, or the operator was used to specify the absolute position of an object:.

Usually data models are specified in a data modeling language.

Usually data models are specified in a data modeling language.

( Even creating " do it yourself " benchmarks to get at least some appreciation of the relative performance of different programming languages, using a variety of user specified criteria, is quite simple to produce as this " Nine language Performance roundup " by Christopher W. Cowell-Shah demonstrates by example )

In the language of linear algebra, people say that derivative operator maps ( k + 1 )- dimensional vector into k dimension space, which demands one extra condition to be specified for inverse operation.