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Simply put, the communicator must consider the audience before making the presentation itself and in cases where it is not possible the presenter can at least try to simplify his / her vocabulary so that the majority can understand
The vast majority of Modern Greek vocabulary is directly inherited from ancient Greek, although in some cases words have changed meanings.
Word-frequency text analyses indicate that a relatively small core vocabulary accounts for the majority of words spoken in a particular language.
Furthermore, only a minority of the huge vocabulary of the English language is used in everyday speech: the remainder is mainly used in technical, literary and other contexts where the written language is the primary means of communication, and in many cases the majority of speakers of the language are unsure of the correct pronunciation.
Chinese writers who spoke other dialects had to use the grammar and vocabulary of Jianghuai and Beijing Mandarin in order for the majority of Chinese to understand their writing ; by contrast, Chinese who did not speak southern dialects would not be able to understand a Southern dialect's writing.
The vast majority of scholars see Modern Hebrew as a direct continuation of Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew, though they concede that it has acquired some European and colloquial Arabic vocabulary and syntactical features, in much the same way as Modern Standard Arabic ( or even more so, dialects such as Moroccan Arabic ).
The immigration of millions of European Jews to North America caused a dramatic increase in the number of Jewish English-speakers ; colonialism in the Maghreb led most of its Jews to shift to French or Spanish ; Zionism revived Hebrew as a spoken language, giving it a substantially increased vocabulary and a simplified sound system ; the Holocaust eradicated the vast majority of Yiddish-and German-speaking European Jews ; and the Arab-Israeli conflict led many Jews to leave the Arab world for other countries ( mainly Hebrew-speaking Israel and French-speaking France ), whose languages they largely adopted.
Despite the differences in grammar and vocabulary between the Gorani language and Kurmanji, a language spoken by the majority of Kurds, Britannica classifies Gorani as a subdialect of Kurdish language.
The majority of vocabulary, as well as the grammatical and syntactic structure of the language, is Iranian, although a large number of Arabic words exist in the everyday speech.
Due this fact, Barreto adopted a simple style in his books, with less advanced vocabulary, so he could be understood by a majority of the Brazilian society.
Darija has acquired the majority of its vocabulary from Berber ( Tamazight ) language, however it also includes significant overtones of Arabic as well as extensive borrowings from French, and to a lesser extent Castilian Spanish and even Italian ( primarily in Libya ) – the languages of the historical colonial occupiers of the Maghreb.
To overcome cultural conflicts anti-historicism with modern architectural vocabulary became a prevalent design strategy for the majority of architectural projects.
The majority of the babies ' new vocabulary consists of object words ( nouns ) and action words ( verbs ).

majority and ancient
Other than the Bible, the majority of the LDS canon constitutes revelation dictated by Joseph Smith and includes commentary and exegesis about the Bible, texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to be written by ancient prophets.
In the majority of these references, Jacob is mentioned alongside fellow prophets and patriarchs as an ancient and pious prophet.
Although the Sovereign was not stripped of the ancient prerogative powers and legally remained the head of government, politically it gradually became necessary for him or her to govern through a Prime Minister who could command a majority in Parliament.
The majority consensus among biblical scholars is that the genre of the Gospels is a kind of ancient biography and not myth.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works ( other than pottery ) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely.
The majority of ancient cavalry units were equipped either with javelins or a one-handed thrusting spear similar to that used by infantry.
The geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75 % of the modern British population could ( in theory ) trace their ancestry back 15, 000 years.
The birth of these kingdoms / tribes essentially altered the political structure of the ancient world of the Vahoaka Ntaolo, but the vast majority of other categories remained intact in these new realms: the common language, customs, traditions, the sacred, the economy, the art of the olds remained preserved in the vast majority of forms with variations by region.
The majority of the area of the " northern civilized cities ", as the Vosk river region in the temperate north of the continent is referred to, is reminiscent of ancient Greco-Roman city-states in many respects ( aside from the delta city of Port Kar, which is a more anarchic and piratical version of Venice ).
The majority of Taos Indians practice their still-vital, ancient indigenous religion.
While secular Jews ascend freely, the question of whether ascending is permitted is a matter some debate among religious authorities, with a majority holding that it is permitted to ascend to the Temple Mount, but not to step on the site of the inner courtyards of the ancient Temple.
The shergottites appear to have crystallised as recently as 180 million years ago, which is a surprisingly young age considering how ancient the majority of the surface of Mars appears to be, and the small size of Mars itself.
The-l-m-variant is admitted to be the older form and the correct form by the majority of Thracologists, as this is the form found in the older Herodotus manuscripts and other ancient sources.
The primary constructors of Kalkaska's geographical make-up are ancient glaciers, along with the majority of the entire state of Michigan.
The traditional view based on the majority of ancient sources, e. g., Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, as well as Herodotus, Justin, and Ctesias, although there are minor differences between them.
The red sandstone underlying the majority of Lichfield is present in many of its ancient buildings including Lichfield Cathedral and the Church of St Chad.
The majority of these antiquarians also refused to believe that it was ancient peoples native to Ireland who built the monument, with many believing that it had been built in the early Mediaeval period by invading Vikings, whilst others speculated that it had been actually built by the Ancient Egyptians, ancient Indians or the Phoenicians.
It was clear that the ancient strife of Hats and Caps had become merged in a conflict of classes ; the situation was still further complicated by the ominous fact that the non-noble majority was also the Russian faction.
Their ancient Semitic language is known as Aramaic ( or " Syriac " after the time of Christ since the majority of people who spoke this language belonged to the province of " Syria ").
The majority of ancient Bible translations also follow the majority view, with only the Aramaic Curetonian Gospels offering significant testimony to the minority view.

majority and Greek
Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).
It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.
His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.
Greek is predominantly spoken in the South, where the majority are Greek Cypriots, Turkish in the north, where the majority are Turkish Cypriots
Whether this was an attempt to foster increasing unity by dissolving legal boundaries between communities, or to effect domination of the Turkish Cypriots by the majority Greek Cypriots, remains controversial.
* favoured a weak central government presiding over two sovereign states in voluntary association, a legacy of earlier fears of domination by the majority Greek Cypriots ; and
The large majority of Old Testament references in the New Testament are taken from the Greek Septuagint ( LXX )— which includes the deuterocanonical books, as well as apocrypha — both of which are called collectively αναγιγνοσκόμενα anagignoskomena ( things that are read or " profitable reading ").
Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history ; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were previously used.
The vast majority of them remain unknown outside the Greek borders due to the lack of knowledge and the highly localized distinctive features.
Having succeeded in defeating their foes, the majority of the Gauls returned to their homelands but retained an occupation force and colonial settlements throughout the Greek world.
Under the protocol signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.
The majority of Greeks continued to live under Ottoman rule, and Greeks dreamed of liberating them all and reconstituting a state embracing all the Greek lands, with Constantinople as its capital.
Paul Maier states that the first case is generally seen as hopeless, given that a Jew, Josephus would not have claimed Jesus as the Messiah, and that the second option is hardly tenable given the presence of the reference in all Greek manuscripts ; thus a large majority of modern scholars accept the third alternative, i. e. partial authenticity.
The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syrian Orthodox, as well as Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims.
The majority view is that all of the books that would eventually form the New Testament were written in Koine Greek.

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