Sentences with phrase «american dialect»

The novel uses African - American dialect and imagery to good effect.

Two hundred linguists from the American Dialect Society have declared the singular «they» as word of the year.

British actress Swinton certainly had a bit of trouble with her American dialect, but it's in the quiet moments that she transcends language and gets to the heart of a desperate mother.

A professional speech coach attempts to teach Clouseau a Standard American dialect, but he can't master a word («hamburger»), much less a sentence.

The few dozen kindly souls who live there raise livestock, cavort happily in the fields, and speak an American dialect that will be familiar to anyone who has watched fourth - graders put on a Thanksgiving play.

In «Laggies,» Keira Knightley tries on a generic American dialect.

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Voted word of the year by the linguists of the American Dialect Society in 2007, this had to be the only occasion on which the mention of the word drew acclaim.

The word truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society.

Those British and American dialects set a wonderfully off - kilter vibe.

(In English, French and Native American dialects with subtitles)

My telephone calls and e-mails had people with poor American dialects who were obviously not from this country and not had the command of the English language to understand people.

Not exact matches

The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

In Papiamentu, the Creole dialect, musik di zumbi is «spirit music,» a combination of African rhythms, reggae, and South American music.

It has been supposed, from the word Chili being sometimes applied to the Capsicum by the European merchants of Amboyna [Ambon Island], that the plant is of American origin; but no such name is known in any genuine dialect of the Archipelago; it is indigenous in most of the islands, and is called by different names in the different languages; in Javanese it is Lombok, in the Malay dialect Chabai, and in the Bali, Tabia.

Cattywampus physicalizes this story through a multi-disciplinary orchestration of distinctly American aesthetics — country - western music, line dancing, backwoods Pennsylvania speech and dialect, and a more - Method - than - Method acting style.

Chin, a community organizer and immigrant advocate who speaks three Chinese dialects, is expected to become the first Chinese - American to represent Chinatown in city council.

Robert Easton, a character actor whose command of a vast array of foreign and American regional accents led to a flourishing second career as a dialect coach to Hollywood stars such as Charlton Heston and Anne Hathaway, has died.

Still, one admires American director Rick Zieff's professed dedication to seeking out regionally authentic accents / dialects, especially since that's a luxury Japanese animators obsessed with Victorian England don't have in their homeland.

The English - language version, adapted by Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) himself, sidesteps a proper setting, although it's clear from the signs that it takes place somewhere in Scandinavia, though no explanation for the different dialects (mostly a mix of American and Brit accents) is afforded.

Dunst's performance here is hardly different than those she would portray in modern - day films for young adults, and although Coppola's dialogue does mostly avoid obvious modern catchphrases and slang, all of the actors speak in their own native dialects, with a cast blended with mostly American and British actors.

As a native Welsh - West and English speaker, Egerton can also speak a number of accents / dialects: American - New York, American - Standard, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Northern, and RP.

In The Hiptionary, Mahmoud El - Kati, Professor Emeritus in American History at Maclester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, legitimizes black dialect with alphabetical lists of both vocabulary words and phrases straight from the vernacular.

Weisz is fine in her underwritten role, though she can't pull off a convincing American accent to save her life; this isn't the first time I've been distracted by her broad attempt at the dialect.

Last November, while on tour to promote her film «American Sniper,» she told the Globe that she had worked with a dialect coach to perfect her Boston accent for the local project.

Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

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I pointed to African American Vernacular English, a dialect spoken by some black people, as a similar example.

In the videos, signs used by American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters were often indecipherable because the interpreters were wearing light - colored clothing or because they were using an ASL dialect unfamiliar to students.

Utilizing the principles of universal design, these accessibility resources include Braille, stacked Spanish translations, videos in American Sign Language, glossaries provided in 10 languages and several dialects, as well as translated test directions in 19 languages.

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His ear for speech, dialect and wordplay remains noteworthy in American letters.

Some items typically included in a style sheet are: choice of dialect (e.g. Canadian versus American English); spelling and proper use of invented words; a list of character and place names; and punctuation and grammar choices.

The website prides itself on the ability of its writers, with claims that word usage will vary depending on the local dialect (English words for English students, American words for American students etc.).

Joining Peter will be Karoline Steckley, Director of the American Italian Association in Trieste, who reports on the expat life, off - the - brochure Italian seaside towns like Trieste, the different Italian dialects, and the surprising significance of coffee in Trieste.

Adding racist insult to injury, an American actor badly mangled the Kriol dialect popularly used throughout Belize, inappropriately adding Spanish words.

The language of the Garífuna is a mix of several different languages, including dialects from Africa, the Caribbean, and Native American tribes.

It's true that many English dialects are looked down upon in — at least in general American culture.

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This infographic, created by Column Five, shows the Native American root meanings of 27 state names, as well as the tribe and dialect the name came from.

His personae, most of which he plays himself, are conflations of his upbringing in the African - American culture of the Southern United States (family and church ties, dialect, humor, music), as well as his experiences in the contemporary art world.

But it bravely elides differences of gender, race and religion, finding that [Lee] Krasner and [Norman] Lewis — a Jewish woman and an African - American man — shared a visual language that was a subtler, more intimate dialect of Abstract Expressionism.»

A follow - up to the Dixon's popular 2009 exhibition, Regional Dialect, Modern Dialect will bring together more than 50 American Scene and modernist paintings from the 1930s and 1940s.

What differentiates one region of American Sign Language from other such dialects?

Among the black community, the slur nigger is sometimes rendered as nigga, a pronunciation emphasizing the unique intra-racial dialect of black people, a self - referential pronoun in African - American Vernacular English usage popularized by the rap and hip - hop music cultures.

One of the biggest changes for the North American version of the game is that there are 13 regional dialects that recent Dragon Quest games have become known for.