Sentences with word «lingua»

But for experienced spreadsheet hands for whom macros have become lingua franca, it comes up short.

La lingua ritrovata, poesia minima is a diptych of two copper aluminium plaques that draws upon an alphabet of seven consonants, which could be read as letters, but altogether do not represent a word.

Ethnicity: Latins: Era: Vulgar Latin developed into Romance languages, 6th to 9th centuries; the formal language continued as the scholarly lingua franca Foreign ladies online dating service specializes in Russian, Latin, and Asian women.

Irma Blank, Global Writings, La lingua ritrovata, poesia minima, 29-2-2004, digital writing and silkscreen print on copper - coated aluminium, diptych, 63 x154 cm each, 2004

Although English may have replaced Latin as the de facto lingua franca of science, it is still not the language of undergraduate instruction at most European universities.

«He's not so far removed from football and the casual lingua franca of playing life, and his keynote could have been delivered at midfield in a practice,» notes The Wall Street Journal.

This is not just because Quebec has a large (and, historically, disproportionately wealthy and influential) Angl - phone community, but also because it serves national and international clients whose lingua franca is English.

And as a global lingua...

And as one reads through the theoretical literature on crime and penology, one finds very shortly that the articles on such topics as the Charles Manson case are thin, pale and anemic; for these discussions are wrapped in the folds of a value - neutral social science lingua franca which makes any realistic or in - depth ethical discussion virtually impossible.

This is why many countries like France have l'Académie francaise, an organization dedicated to promoting the old lingua Franca (French).

English will continue to be the # 1 language in the EU even if the U.K. leaves because it has a clear hegemony among the non-native speakers - it is the actual lingua franca of the contemporary Western world, and arguably mostly thanks to the influence of the U.S., and not U.K., in the recent 100 years.

The universal lingua franca of our age is information.

French science students would benefit from a better mastery of English, the current lingua franca of science, he says.

The lipophilia concept vanished after World War II with the replacement of German with English as the scientific lingua franca.

The true lingua franca of the movie is gasbaggy speechifying: Parks is a master of plummy monologuing, while Smith is too generous with an uncredited Johnny Depp, playing a mustachioed Québécois detective whose French - Canadian patter tests patience.

Fast - forward through this brutal occupation to Timor's independence 25 years later, and when drafting the constitution, the new government chose Portuguese and Tetun, a Portuguese creole lingua franca, as the two official languages.

Not a doctor himself, Ananthaswamy is nevertheless an award - winning science journalist who's at home in the world of medical jargon, and who (mostly) translates the complex lingua franca of neurology into readable prose.

From the perspective of an indie author seeking a path to greater readership, a book trailer offers an opportunity to tap into the burgeoning lingua franca of the Web: video.

In 6 different cities in the UK lingua offers a language school in which to learn English, these cities are: London, Oxford, York, Brighton, Totnes and Bournemouth.

That is the discourse [Douglas] Crimp internalizes, and it came to be lingua artspeak everywhere.

The end product arises out of a sculptural tradition based on the creation of works of art influenced by religion and literature, but simultaneously reduced to a secret level of identification — an art historical lingua franca.

Under his influence, adjectival pejoratives such as those employed above entered the critical lingua franca of contemporary painting, and remain there to this day.

Before I write this blog, I should make a confession; declare a bias, if we're going to speak lingua - climate.

And mumbling has the wonderful virtue of being a world - wide lingua franca — no need to translate from Korean to German, from English to French, etc..

The subscription met its targets and In 1612, Vocabolario della lingua italiana was published, and went through a number of editions, with a digital version underway today.

And that's the beauty of it: we can pay attention to what's happening in India in a way that we can not with its «semblable, son frère,» China, because in India English is a widespread lingua franca.

«Juste - ice» depends on context, which most of the time is pretty mainstream for me, but every now and then I stray into somewhere a bit more unusual and want to know a word or two in the local lingua franca.

It primarily covers two things: the structure of your house and its assets (known as content in insurance lingua).

It used to be that you could depend on Window as the default lingua franca of business computing.

Ethnicity: Latins: Era: Vulgar Latin developed into Romance languages, 6th to 9th centuries; the formal language continued as the scholarly lingua franca

English does serve as a kind of de facto lingua franca in a number of international settings, but it is not, from what I have read, taught universally in South America, many African countries, or in parts of Asia, at least not at an early age for effective language acquisition (and I am unaware of any evidence that English is projected to take over in a reasonable period of time on its own; I have read that in Southeast Asia, for example, emphasis may even be shifting to Chinese).

Irma Blank, Global Writings, La lingua ritrovata, poesia minima, 19-2-04, digital writing and silkscreen print on canvas, diptych, 30.5 x 43.5 cm each, 2004

The prize will raise the awareness of mathematics as the «lingua franca for all science,» says Arnfinn Laudal, a mathematician at the University of Oslo.

So he cobbled together a relatively easy - to - learn coding system — HTML — that has come to be the lingua franca of the Web.

There are thorny digital rights and regulatory issues to work out before IP becomes the lingua franca between PCs and TVs.

No matter your industry these words have become the lingua franca for navigating success in an ever - changing world.

Now in its tenth year, it has become virtually the lingua franca of data exchange.

«America's strengths include [the fact it is a] society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.»

Greek became a lingua franca throughout much of the Middle East after Alexander's conquests.

Almost certainly he did not know Koiné Greek, the lingua franca of the time.

It is natural that the pioneering work in the expansion of Christian faith in the semitic areas was carried out, not by Greek - speaking Hellenistic Christians, but by Aramaic - speaking Christians who possessed the lingua franca of their contemporary orient.

Islam is strongest in societies where a lingua franca exists and weakest in places of vernacular preponderance.