ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

Writing was introduced during the French occupation and literacy is limited, especially in rural areas.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.

Writing a century before Causantín was born, Bede recorded five languages in Britain.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

Writing was phonetic ; the letters represented the sounds and not conventional spellings.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

Writing was known and available for recording, even in small sites.

Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.

Writing data to a disk was done by converting 256-byte pages into sets of 5-bit or, later, 6-bit nibbles ; loading data from the disk required the reverse.

Writing of the beauty of the Hebrew women there, he records them saying St. Mary was a relative of theirs, and notes that, " The house of St. Mary is a basilica.

Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.

Writing in late antiquity, the Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight ( vir prudentissimus ), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia ().

Writing after the events of 1604 – 1606, the Jesuit priest Oswald Tesimond's description of his friend was favourable: " his countenance was exceedingly noble and expressive ... his conversation and manners were peculiarly attractive and imposing, and that by the dignity of his character he exercised an irresistible influence over the minds of those who associated with him.

Writing in National Review in March 2007, Dinesh D ' Souza described The Myth of Islamic Tolerance as being attractive to those who would like to criticize Muslims at large for 9 / 11.

Writing in 1585, he noted some word similarities between Sanskrit and Italian ( these included devaḥ / dio " God ", sarpaḥ / serpe " serpent ", sapta / sette " seven ", aṣṭa / otto " eight ", nava / nove " nine ").

Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.

Keith Gordon Irwin, in The Romance of Writing, p. 125, says " The Italian libbra ( from the old Latin word libra, ' balance ') represented a weight almost exactly equal to the avoirdupois pound of England.

In 1588 Timothy Bright published his Characterie ; An Arte of Shorte, Swifte and Secrete Writing by Character which introduced a system with 500 arbitrary symbols each representing one word.

Writing for the majority, Justice Jackson eloquently stated: " If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

Writing Japanese in kana ( hiragana and katakana ) demonstrates the moraic system of writing ; for example, the word Tomato is written in three letters ト マ ト which correspond to.

* Writing ( by hand, or with a word processor, etc.

Andrew Robinson also highlights, in his work The Origins of Writing, the possibility for writing to be used to spread false information and therefore the ability of the written word to decrease social knowledge ( Robinson, Andrew ( 2003 ) The Origins of Writing in Crowley and Heyer ( eds ) Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society, Boston pp 34 ).

Writing in 1906, Louis Chassevent recognized the difference ( and as Daniel Robbins pointed out in his Gleizes catalogue, used the word " cube " which later would be taken up by Louis Vauxelles to baptize Cubism ): " M. Metzinger is a mosaicist like M. Signac but he brings more precision to the cutting of his cubes of color which appear to have been made mechanically [...]".

) Writing in 1921 Spengler observed that he might have used in his title the word Vollendung ( which means ' fulfillment ' or ' consummation ') and saved a great deal of misunderstanding.

Writing in his ' The Cricketers of My Time ' ( 1833 ), John Nyren of Hambledon hints at the origin of the word ' slips ' when he describes the function of a long stop as a fielder who ' is required to cover many slips from the bat, both to the leg and the off-side.

Writing in 1881, Morris described how he had created a wholly original name in an attempt to outwit his imitators ; he also refused to disclose the origin of the word.

* November-National Novel Writing Month People from all over the world trying to each write a 50, 000 word novel in a month.

Writing in The Guardian's film guide, Steve Rose wrote of the season: " It's not often you'll find a movie season where you're offered Charlton Heston receiving the word of God one moment and a man supple enough to fellate himself the next, but such are the broad-minded tastes of William Crawley, journalist and BBC Northern Ireland presenter, who curates his own season here.

Each of the squares hid two possible definitions for a word, such as " Writing Implement / Animal Enclosure " for the word " pen ".

" Writing in 2009, Professor Christopher Wickham pointed out that " the word ' Frankish ' quickly ceased to have an exclusive ethnic connotation.