While both communities use the forehead location and neutral space location with the H handshape, Black speakers also have a separate sign for rabbit, with a bent V handshape and different hand movement.

While classical rhetoric trained speakers to be effective persuaders in public forums and institutions such as courtrooms and assemblies, contemporary rhetoric investigates human discourse writ large.

While Sapir never made a point of studying directly how languages affected the thought processes of their speakers, some notion of ( probably " weak ") linguistic relativity lay inherent in his basic understanding of language, and would be taken up by his student Benjamin Lee Whorf.

" While some words eventually lose their status as slang ( the word " mob ", for example, began as a shortening of Latin mobile vulgus ), others continue to be considered as such by most speakers.

While Western Yiddish has few remaining speakers, Eastern dialects remain in wide use.

While the language developed, he needed speakers, history for the speakers and all real dynamics, like war and migration: " It was primarily linguistic in inspiration and was begun in order to provide the necessary background of ‘ history ’ for Elvish tongues ".

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

While this phrase may be used as one lexical item by English speakers, that is to say, an English speaker would not say only déjà to convey the meaning associated with the full term déjà vu, in the donor language ( French ), speakers would be aware of the phrase consisting of two words.

While he was exposed as a fraud who wrote the poems himself, the tales found in the poems were popular and common in the oral tradition of Gaelic speakers in Ireland and Scotland.

While most competent English speakers will immediately give the right answer to the analogy question ( sole ), it is more difficult to identify and describe the exact relation that holds both between hand and palm, and between foot and sole.

While many Buttonwillow residents attempted to participate in meetings, there was no one in attendance who was willing to translate for Spanish speakers.

While these are mostly regionalisms ( i. e. originating from the dialect commonly spoken in the area, regardless of color ), a number of them — such as the deletion of is — are used much more frequently by black speakers, suggesting that they have their origins in black speech.

While the quartet did play live, the music played simultaneously over speakers and on television was a recording made two days prior due to concerns over the cold weather damaging the instruments.

While the original Cantonese term jook-gon ( 竹竿, bamboo stick ) sounds like 竹乾 ( dry bamboo ) or 竹降 ( fallen bamboo ) ( which also means " unfortunate " to Cantonese people ) Cantonese speakers use Jook-sing ( rising bamboo ) instead.

While 40 % of all urban Romanian / Moldovan speakers declared Romanian as their native language, in the countryside barely a seventh of the Romanian / Moldovan speakers indicated Romanian as their native language.

While 37 % of all urban Romanian / Moldovan speakers chose Romanian as their native language, in the countryside barely one in seven Romanian / Moldovan speakers indicated Romanian as his native language.

While Indian speakers of English use idioms peculiar to their homeland, often literal translations of words and phrases from their native languages, this is far less common in proficient speakers, and the grammar itself tends to be quite close to that of Standard English.

* While retaining in the final position, Indian speakers usually include the after it.

While the largest speakers commonly used for regular electric guitar are 12 " speakers, electric bass speaker cabinets often use 15 " speakers.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

While the mechanism is not fully understood, it is likely to involve the production of electron – positron pairs, as ordinary matter gains tremendous energy while falling into a stellar remnant .< ref >

* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.

* 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

While Zwingli was burning organs in Switzerland – Luther called him a fanatic – the Church of England was burning books of polyphony.

While services in the Temple in Jerusalem included musical instruments ( 2 Chronicles 29: 25 – 27 ), traditional Jewish religious services in the Synagogue, both before and after the destruction of the Temple, did not include musical instruments given the practice of scriptural cantillation.

* 1988: Short Form Music Video of the Year – " Stay For a While "

While controlled clinical trials of atypicals reported that extrapyramidal symptoms occurred in 5 – 15 % of patients, a study of bipolar disorder in a real world clinical setting found a rate of 63 %, questioning the generalizability of the trials.

While some software developers use the term ISO C, others are standards body – neutral and use Standard C.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

While only one net lane in each direction was added to the north – south I-93, several new east – west lanes were added to untangle the traffic.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

While diverse life forms prospered in the oceans, the land was comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few forms that apparently emerged to browse on the microbial materials.

While this certificate has limited portability – to other corporations, for example – it is the most simple to develop.

While the use of face masks was not unheard-of – Y. A.

While the Rockies struggled to a 68 – 94 record — the second worst record in club history — the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, went 78 – 65.

While they do sometimes live solitarily, they are more commonly found in groups that average 10 – 20 individuals, with two to four adult males, four to seven adult females and the rest juveniles.

While conducting a program of observations designed to uncover near-Earth objects, the Shoemakers and Levy discovered Comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 on the night of March 24, 1993 in a photograph taken with the Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

While encyclopedias in larger languages, having large markets that could support a large editorial staff, churned out new 20-volume works in a few years and new editions with brief intervals, such publication plans often spanned a decade or more in smaller languages.

While finishing his PhD he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there.

While grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

While threads require external library support in most languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming.

While Belarusian and Southern Russian form a continuous area, making it virtually impossible to draw a line between two languages.

While most compilers for imperative programming languages detect pure functions, and perform common-subexpression elimination for pure function calls, they cannot always do this for pre-compiled libraries, which generally do not expose this information, thus preventing optimizations that involve those external functions.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

While not very prominent in modern English, cases featured much more saliently in Old English and other ancient Indo-European languages, such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

While the bit patterns of the 95 printable ASCII characters are sufficient to exchange information in modern English, most other languages that use the Latin alphabet need additional symbols not covered by ASCII, such as ß ( German ), ñ ( Spanish ), å ( Swedish and other Nordic languages ) and ő ( Hungarian ).

While constructed languages (" conlangs ") are viewed as creations with copyright protection, natural languages are not protected, excluding dictionaries and / or other works created with them.

While the first generation of literate programming tools were computer language-specific, the later ones are language-agnostic and exist above the programming languages.

While the cost of supporting and hosting the project is high, OCW expanded in 2005 to include other universities as a part of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, which currently includes more than 250 academic institutions with content available in least six languages.

While the idea of markup language originated with text documents, there is an increasing usage of markup languages in other areas which involve the presentation of various types of information, including playlists, vector graphics, web services, content syndication, and user interfaces.

While it is often claimed that Standard Macedonian was codified on the base of those dialects ( i. e. the Prilep-Bitola dialect ) which were most unlike Bulgarian, this interpretation stems from the works of Krste Misirkov who suggested that Standard Macedonian should abstract on those dialects " most distinct from the standards of the other Slavonic languages ".

While this is not uncommon for modern languages such as Perl or JavaScript, it was a highly unusual feature in the late 1970s.

While the original Syriac retained the original description which Mani created, the transformation of the deities through other languages and cultures produced incarnations of the deities not implied in the original Syriac writings.

While syntactic macros are most commonly found in Lisp-like languages, they have been implemented for other languages such as Dylan, Scala, and Nemerle.