Sentences with phrase «many dialects»

His most popular videos include the dialect from Liverpool, and the way London «roadmen» talk.

«When I uploaded the British dialect videos, as I expected [my Korean audience] found it quite interesting because they didn't know very much about the fact that there are different kinds of British dialects and accents,» he said.

I wish there was dialect through the proper channels on this to avert any dangerous developments.»

Miller told CNN: «A guy calls you and you talk to him and you build up a rapport over a period of time, you're nice to him because you understand he has a dialect and his language is a little hard to understand, but you think he's probably an immigrant here.»

This might include data about preventive care, proper nutrition, and other early - childhood health issues (all delivered in local languages and dialects).

And Munro, an NDP campaigner hired by the public - affairs company Earnscliffe precisely for her knowledge of that dialect, is one of the people who can tell them.

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.

Flushing also has pockets of Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taishanese, Sichuanese, and other dialects.

It's even understanding dialects and idioms.

Dialects, accents and emotions are hard to translate, and errors can snowball as there are many steps involved.

A developer who «speaks XML» can look at a document written in an unfamiliar XML dialect and still understand what it's trying to say.

Petersen travels to China and Japan several times per year to source products; the problem is, no one on her four - person staff speaks or reads Japanese or any Chinese dialect.

THERE is an increasing interest in the fascinating foods of the great sub-continent of India, where almost half a billion people speak over a dozen major languages which are localised by more than 1500 dialects.

According to its website, over 140 languages and dialects can be heard in the city, with a third of its population speaking a language other than English or French at home.

It even has its own dialect that was spoken by first generation German settlers called Texas German.

Work the word into your company culture and dialect.

Eugene is fluent in Mandarin and proficient in the native Taiwanese Min - Nan dialect.

GSM Arena reporters confirmed at the time that it recognized both Northern and Southern Italian dialects at the time.

Several of our attorneys that practice in this group are fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, dialects and English, and we are able to prepare documentation in these languages and liaise with local PRC counsels to address related issues and concerns.

Definition of wife: a dialect: woman b: a woman acting in a specified capacity — used in combination 2: a female partner in a marriage

@ Rainer Braendlein I did not mean for this to become a religious dialect (Again, I am no scholar) but I did check your website and I hope we communicate and exchange more thoughts with time.

The Kentish dialect of Middle English of the original is accessible.

In our age, in which we have lost the significance of the mystery in sign, let alone the limited signification of truth in any particular sign, it is not amiss in the poet, when he is confronted by inquisitive theorists and urged to pronounce upon the nature of his peculiar calling» the rescue of sign» to speak directly for that labor Eliot calls the purification of the dialect of the tribe.

3.1.1, Irenaeus says: «Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome and laying the foundations of the church.»

• The Ramakien: You have, of course, read the «official» Sanskrit version of the Ramayana, and you may even be aware of certain of the heteroclite Indian dialect versions, but the Indo - Chinese revisions of the stories of the great Indian epics rival the originals in their fantastic flights, and this Thai iteration of the Ramayana is positively tropical in the lushness of its mythic invention.

Barbour, who was the first black graduate of predominantly white Crozer Seminary, knew the white mind - set and spoke the white dialect.

I believe he was the one that had it translated in his native german dialect... after that the game was up and the church turned to outright killing people they couldn't control on a grand scale.

White people do not have or want their own history month, TV station, college fund, beauty pagents, music, or dialect.

She was eventually released, when an intern realized she was using an archaic dialect of the language his parents, or grandparents spoke.

After all, if we do that, don't we then have to do that when the a Canaanite uses the term «god» (el), or other near eastern dialects / languages (il, ilim, elim, etc.) use their similar term for God, then we have to force their meaning and that theology onto the Israelites?

Her «mental illness», was an inability to speak, read, or write, any language but her obscure native (East European) dialect.

Possessing great skill in languages, he mastered an Indian dialect and preached to the natives.

The reader must believe that the three - thousand - year - old past is present, that Homer writes in English, and that his dialect knows of nothing that has happened in the intervening millennia.

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

Like those religious fellowships of Liberia and Sierra Leone, the north Georgia congregations conveyed their culture (later he used the more precise term «subculture») by means of distinct idioms, symbolic dialects constructed both to express and to maintain group identity.

The close nexus between belief and deed in the act of giving alms was noted by the fourth - century theologian St. Ephrem, who wrote in a Christian dialect of Aramaic known as Syriac.

Stone tablets retrieved from this same sect show that the name «Noah» is actually an ancient Hebrew word from a long lost dialect that translates to «Healer».

And in general, familiarity with multiple dialects, like a broader vocabulary, supports clear and beautiful communication.

«And hence, in the second place, I concluded as assuredly that, in the obscurer places of that Testament (which are very many), the best and most natural method of searching out the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners of speech were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion of that nation; and how they took them, by whom they were spoken, and by whom they were heard.

And, given that the Furioso is the completion of the Innamorato (left unfinished at Boiardo's death), readers who have not mastered the dialects of Renaissance Italy can now enjoy the whole narrative arc of these two linked epics without resorting to abridgments.

Mark Bauerlein does not reproduce any of N. M. Gwynne's arguments for the claim that the rules of Standard English grammar, unlike those of the many non-standard English dialects, possess «a rationality that runs deeper than cultural context and historical circumstance» («Grammar Rules,» February).

In fact, most of the time Schweitzer could not communicate directly with them at all; since he did not speak any of the half - dozen dialects around Lambaréné What is a theologian to do when he can not speak?

I knew, indeed, well enough, that I must certainly wrestle with infinite difficulties, and such as were hardly to be overcome; yet I undervalued them all, and armed myself with a firm purpose, that, if it were possible, I might arrive to a fuller and more deep knowledge and understanding of the style and dialect of the New Testament.»

Precisely because it is the standard dialect, it is a particularly useful one to know.

Even if someone speaking Jamaican or Indian English says the same thing, sorry, still a chair in my dialect.

Their language or dialect, is very peculiar.

Differences in food preferences, dialect, and expressive culture remain, and differences connected with religion seem to be especially tenacious.

That dream continues to reverberate and be generative among us because its cadences are not those of reasoned discourse but of an elusive piety, perhaps the favorite dialect of the biblical God.

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