Sentences with phrase «many linguists»

Previously, that kind of work would have required a team of highly skilled linguists and would have taken weeks to translate the original and check the resulting copy.

«The State Department has hemorrhaged Korean linguists and former negotiators,» Douglas H. Paal, an Asia scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, wrote in a tweet.

The company provided the services of their linguists and role players to movie and television war reenactments including the movies Jarhead, Three Kings, and Transformers and the television series 24.

In Arrival, Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, an expert linguist tasked with communicating with aliens who land on Earth, to figure out what they want before their presence kickstarts World War III.

Recognizing the growing need for on - demand interpretation services, Munks, along with linguist Mike McFerrin, cofounded LanguageLine Solutions in 1982.

Famous linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf believed that the words we use influence how we think.

A study by linguist and Textio CEO Kieran Snyder, which I wrote about last summer, illustrates what the non-Sheryl Sandberg experience looks like for many women, not just Ellen Pao.

Trump may have been aiming for the phrase «military precision,» linguist Ben Zimmer told Business Insider, but that wouldn't necessarily excuse him, either.

Linguists and psychologists are still arguing about this one, but it's commonly accepted that learning a second language is easier for most people when they're younger, generally before puberty.

France's foreign intelligence service is bolstering recruitment to counter Islamist militants and cyber criminals, but it is looking for computer wizards and linguists not would - be James Bonds.

Top of the vacancy list at France's DGSE, the equivalent of America's CIA or Britain's MI6, are posts for young information technology gurus and linguists who master the finer points of Russian, Chinese, or Farsi, widely used in Iran and Afghanistan.

The company's employees speak about 12 different languages, «but other than that, we leave the language specialties to professional linguists who offer over 180 different dialects of services from over 4,000 linguists globally,» says Buckstein.

A certification program helps linguists boost their translation skills as well as their knowledge of the industries TransPerfect serves.

Lionbridge uses more than 100,000 certified linguists to help more than 800 companies handle their translation needs.

Langer, who trained as a linguist, said for years prior to 1993, environmentalists had been trying to affect change in the way B.C.'s forests were harvested, with little impact.

By working with meaningful word segments (what linguists call morphemes) like «Acu,» Barr says the company produces new words that are both meaningful and unique.

Steven Pinker, an American cognitive psychologist and linguist also points out...

We partnered with sales linguist Steve W. Martin on a comprehensive study of 230 B2B buyers, with the goal of pointing the spotlight on buyers themselves.

BTW, Joseph Smith translated the golden plates (which were written in what he insisted was «reformed Egyptian» hieroglyphics - something no other linguist in history has ever heard of) behind a curtain while dictating the translation to a secretary on the other side of the curtain.

Anyway, by the time of his death he had probably already achieved as much as he might reasonably have hoped: He had been a certified naval physician, an explorer, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, an ethnographer, a linguist, a sinologist, an aesthetic theorist, and a few other things besides.

Arrival follows the story of a linguist recruited by the military to explore a mysterious spacecraft after it lands on Earth.

As a matter of fact, based on linguists, Bible scholars, historians and archaeologists are the places to go to find the facts of Christianity.

With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.

He therefore sought out the advice of Edward Sapir, a leading linguist at Yale University.

Wycliffe Bible Translators has only just begun distributing these devices to translators and linguists working to translate the Bible into every spoken language.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

John Paul was not just personally holy and personally interesting - poet, philosopher, essayist, linguist, a man with a gift for friendship, a man of prayer, a courageous man with massive moral integrity matched with humour and greatintellectual gifts.

Many linguists and computer programmers would say that the knowledge of a natural language can never be reduced to dictionaries and grammars.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babel, the creationists» explanation for different languages.

The word God inspired is shagel, and according to Hebrew linguists, shagel is an obscene word that describes a sexual act.

Linguists denounce them with relish.

The origins of structuralism lie in the work of the early 20th - century linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who attempted to analyze the system of relationships within a language that makes acts of speech possible.

Professional linguists or anthropologists are part of a distinct human minority.

But we do not want to masquerade as linguists and be anything else but that.

It was a tall order, one that would require a new kind of specially trained missionary: the translator - linguist.

Leonard Bloomfield and Edward Sapir, the two leading linguists of the day, were present at the Linguistic Institute in 1937, and Sapir was impressed with Pike's initial analysis of Mixtec.

Unfortunately there is no single brand of specialists — call them «hominists» — to whom one can turn for authoritative answers about man, as one might turn to linguists for information about languages or, if he had great faith, to meteorologists for understanding the weather.

Without the painstaking work of linguists and archeologists, the early religious history of humankind and many of its later manifestations would have remained unknown or would be inaccessible to us.

By the early 1980s, the organization's translator - linguists were laboring in 761 indigenous language projects and SIL members had published over 9,000 articles and books.

The only answer is to become linguists, in fact, not theory, and deliver the real goods.»

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

Pike also groomed a growing cadre of professional linguists in SIL by encouraging the organization's best minds to pursue doctoral degrees at top universities around the world.

In 1934, Townsend established a summer linguistic course in rural Arkansas for training these translator - linguists.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

One of the most likely instances of this is Jesus» warning to an overeager disciple that whereas the birds have nests and the foxes have holes, the «son of man» does not have a place to lay his head; the meaning may well be, if these linguists are correct, «this man.»

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

It used to be a strong verb, too — the German linguist's term for verbs that don't fool around with piddly dental past tenses, but change their own darned vowels, take that!

I know a linguist who thinks and has seen what he describes as a gift of «tongues», whereby some individuals pick up and learn to speak another language very rapidly, in a matter of days or weeks.