Florian Coulmas, a linguist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, agrees that an evolutionary framework doesn't work well
for written language, but says there's another, simpler explanation: Once a script is introduced, people tend to follow it diligently to avoid confusion — a concept known as path dependence.
Likewise, our ability to draw pictures — along with the requisite brain structures — was preadaptive
for written language.
Because oral language is the foundation
for written language, a limited vocabulary and / or problems with morphology and syntax can cause difficulties in deriving meaning from written text.
Russians use the Cyrillic alphabet as a basis
for their written language, so it can be very hard to read.
Not exact matches
For example, «programmers who pay attention to how they construct
written language also tend to pay a lot more attention to how they code.»
While the words in the emails seem shockingly harsh, it's worth noting that the finer points of communications — tone of voice, body
language or background on the histories of the people involved,
for example — can't be conveyed through the
written word.
How Twitter applications work: Twitter allows anyone to create and sell software that incorporates, organizes, and rearranges tweets in real time —
for instance, by collecting messages
written by professional athletes (an app called Twackle) or translating tweets into the
language of the high seas (an app called Post Like a Pirate).
If you've wanted to learn a foreign
language, master coding, or simply improve your
writing and photography skills, there's a class
for you here, and it's available
for just $ 10.
And, of course, the phone, the old standby, is the most effective
for quickly talking things through that might not otherwise come across clearly in
written language.
What to do instead: Make sure to use proper grammar and professional
language when
writing your note, and leave the LOLs and smileys
for Instagram comments.
The Unicode standard defines a unique number
for every letter, symbol, or glyph in more than 30
written languages, and it's still growing.
It will be another step toward Reisman's stated goal
for e-reading: «Any
written material, any
language, any format, any access channel.»
Also,
write for the person who will be reading it - if they tend to be very polite and formal,
write in that
language.
He has
written three books on body
language and he's the person world leaders come to
for help with their communication.
He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical
language,
write hits
for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and music of all time, Trapped in the Closet — would be someone else.
The rationale
for excluding those
languages is that users can fit more thoughts into fewer characters given the nature of their
written language.
Although the DOL staff
wrote the 60 - day delay with
language making it hard to delay the rule again, Anderson is hopeful that Acosta getting his own staff in place bodes well
for rule opponents.
You can't - one of the most important traits of an engaging writer is that they know exactly who it is they're
writing for; they know how to tailor their
language to their audience.
HB 331: Filed by Slosberg, this bill adds new
language to the state's patients bill of rights, requiring facilities to send an explanation
for any relocation in
writing to both a resident and the Long - Term Care Ombudsman.
Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet)
for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market
for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious
language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither
for the auto industry, nor
for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its
written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).
Use
language appropriate to the visitor based on the target audience Heat maps show an F pattern is used when scanning content, so using bold headings and sub-headings to make it easier to scan and break up a copy Change paragraphs to bulleted lists Put the main point first (inverted pyramid) Use personal pronouns Put yourself in the place of the visitor and consider questions the visitor may have, then get to the point with the answer Add links, if appropriate, to keep the visitor engaged on your site and to keep them from searching elsewhere Name links (and anchor text) in a way that the visitor will know what to expect when they click Find out what keywords visitors are searching
for to reach your site and
write with these keywords in mind These tips are a great starting point
for anyone wanting to optimize their website content.
Law professors
write solely
for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the
language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.
They are not encoded
for in the genome, but the capability to learn
languages and
write is encoded in the genome.
the Romans would not have used the Jewish
language to
write their anti Jewish dogma book... read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill
for the details.
Many, it is true, are
written by people with no expertise in medieval history or even basic competency in the
languages necessary
for research on medieval topics.
In order to reduce the need
for war and conflict, and to improve conditions in impoverished countries, the USA should be distributing unlimited volumes of the Koran / Quran (as well as the Bible and other popular texts)-- but all the books should be
written or translated into the
languages of the local population.
and
for your own knowledge — the new part was originally
written in 3
languages — hebrew, greek and latin... in that order too!
Although she can parrot the state's
language, as in her wondrous passing remark that oranges have been hard to get «since Central America was lost to the Libertheos» (p. 25), her main hope
for survival lies in exercising her ability to «read» and «
write.»
whats the bs about talking christian.you speak in the
language of the land you were born.the pope is german and he can deliver mass in several
language.as
for me i talk and
write in spanish, english, spanglish etc..
Christian missionaries in Mughal India were constantly trying to present the Christian faith not only by
writing in Persian (the
language of the Court) but also by telling the Christian story,
for example, through the painting of miniatures, a notable art form at the time.
Two years ago I
wrote an article
for The Christian Century on the
language of hymns and the new biblical translations which I freely confess was more heat than light («Lord, Bless This Burning Pit Stop,» January 15, 1975, p. 36).
Science also, practically, requires a culture with a
written language for the easy recording and sharing of large amounts of precise data.
Academics are taught to
write for other academics, which means adopting a particular discipline's distinctive
language.
If we tried translating Verlaine's spiritual
writing into the
language of accompaniment and integration, we would be exchanging great religious art
for soulless bureaucratic jargon.
At the time of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were in place
for His people of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a
written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and need
for salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.
Whitehead considers the command of
language such a crucial element
for self - identity and understanding that he
writes, «The account of the sixth day should be
written, He gave them speech, and they became souls» (MT 57).
In fact when a scientist
writes for other scientists his
language becomes practically incomprehensible to outsiders.
The series is
written for lay persons and in non-technical
language, although the authorship is highly distinguished in the several fields in which the authors
write.
In editing the dialogue
for publication I have changed spoken English into
written English, including the normal things (like: excising partial sentences, false starts, irrelevant asides, and things that needlessly impede the flow of reading the dialogue; filling in nouns
for indefinite pronoun references; removing some colloquial
language and contractions; and adjusting the grammar).
He describes in characteristically straightforward
language Protestantism's crisis of authority and its need
for real shepherds: «The Church must have not only normative sources
written down on paper but also authoritative officeholders ordained to teach the whole Church.»
Since the Bible is
written in androcentric, grammatically masculine
language that can function as generic inclusive or as patriarchal exclusive
language, feminist interpretation must develop a hermeneutics of critical evaluation
for proclamation that is able to assess theologically whether scriptural texts function to inculcate patriarchal values, or whether they must be read against their linguistic «androcentric grain» in order to set free their liberating vision
for today and
for the future.
Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was
writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of
language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method
for understanding human thought.
While many of the books about Jesus are
written in scholarly
language and primarily
for other scholars, Viola and Sweet have
written a well - researched and documented biography of Jesus, but in a way that the average Christian can read and understand.
For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them and left with them the
writing of Matthew in the Hebrew
language which they had preserved till that time.
As
for the rest of your posts, they strike me as having been
written by someone
for whom English is not a first
language.
«When the physical model of wave - motion in a material medium had to be abandoned in physics»,
writes Mary Hesse, «it left its traces in the kind of mathematics which was used,
for this was still a mathematical
language derived from the wave equations of fluid motion, and so,
for the mathematician, it carried some of the imaginative associations of the original physical picture.»
The fragment,
written in Coptic, a
language used by Egyptian Christians, says in part, «Jesus said to them, «My wife...» Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King announced the findings of the 1 1/2 - by 3 - inch honey - colored fragment on Tuesday in Rome at the International Association
for Coptic Studies.
18 So Mark has
written,
for once permitting the
language of emotion to breach the severe reserve of his narrative Jesus now left his friends and withdrew «about a stone's throw,» to fall into solitary and agonized prayer.
Other scriptural books, the Rigveda
for example, from closer to the same time period, and also
written by dark skinned people, also use the
language that you are reading on your terms.
This teaching has been preserved
for us in the
language and thought - forms of the later Evangelists, and is
written in the light of the death of Jesus on the cross.