Sentences with phrase «n't linguists»

Doctors aren't linguists, obviously, but there's no reason for you to skip the proofreading part of your resume writing.

«They weren't linguists,» according to Darolyn Davis, who handled crisis communications for the district during that period.

Jukka: I am not a linguist, but the name «Cumari o passarinho» roughly translates as «the little bird of Cumari.»

Not all linguists embrace Bowern's method or results.

A Scrabble endgame — the last few turns, when contests at the highest level are frequently decided — is the dream battleground of a tactician, not a linguist.

For example, they assumed that Latin was directly ancestral to Romance languages such as Spanish, French, and Italian — something that many but not all linguists agree on — and that Vedic Sanskrit was directly ancestral to the Indo - Aryan languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent.

Well your not a linguist Tucker, are you?

So don't worry if you're not a linguist, give it a go, the children love it!

Even if you're not a linguist or polymath, it's fascinating to read.

So let's look at three pieces of the Daoist (or Taoist, I'm not a linguist.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

So, while he is not an empiricist, Hartshorne is no philosophical linguist or logician; he is an experientialist, interested in the principles of experience as such.

Between one - half and nine - tenths of the world's 6,700 spoken languages will disappear over the next century, linguists estimate, not through sword or plague, but through lack of interest in progeny.

It takes the linguist several weeks of labor to unravel the structure of a language with which he is not familiar.

All of this attention only adds further weight to the long - standing perception that Brits just aren't «good» at learning languages - a commonly held belief that is just not true - every one of us is an expert linguist - after all, we have all done pretty well at learning at least one language - our mother tongue.

Linguists do not consider taking in loanwords a major language change — rather, alterations in grammar or pronunciation are seen as more fundamental alterations.

In 2002, a team of linguists and historians argued that the script did not represent language at all, but religious or political imagery.

When it comes to languages, the Pama - Nyungan tree «gives us the first and only hypothesis of the higher - level branching of the Pama - Nyungan family,» says Harold Koch, a historical linguist at ANU who was not involved in the Nature study, although he was Bowern's undergraduate adviser.

While Southerners might sound uniform to an ill - informed Northerner, vowel pronunciations are definitely not monolithic, a linguist reports.

Paul Heggarty, a linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, questions Garrett's methods, arguing that, for example, linguists can not be sure if the Latin attested to in written documents really was the direct ancestor of later Romance languages, rather than some dialect of Latin for which no record remains.

According to linguists at the AAAS, the loss of language is bad not only for linguists but for all humanity.

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.

«This is the first really solid statistical study I've seen which shows principles about language decline that we've know about, but hadn't been able to put together in a sound way,» says Leanne Hinton, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Claire Kramsch, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, tells him the question should not be «How many languages do you know?»

Although linguists have long believed that counting and having words for numbers are basic, if not innate, to human cognition, the Pirahã people in Brazil have no words to express numerical concepts such as «one,» «two,» or «many.»

Words mold many aspects of thought, says linguist Paul Kay, but not all aspects.

This practice is notable because many linguists have assumed that users of auditory languages would not also develop visual language like that seen in sign languages, but this phenomenon shows that this is not necessarily the case.

Marek Kohn quotes linguist Noam Chomsky concluding: language «is not properly regarded as a system of communication... It is a...

I wish to find someone special who is thinking of starting Friendly and open - minded, I am kind by nature and can not stand rudeness or cruelty of any kind to any living being professional linguist, I can speak up to 6 la..

You can not expect an intellectual whiz or a linguist.

While I don't discriminate against any particular women, I still like to go back to my roots and date Russian (and other ex-Soviet Union) women every now As a linguist, I often get asked about best ways to learn languages.

The Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to: Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language) / Mexico, Netherlands (Director: Ernesto Contreras, Screenwriter: Carlos Contreras)-- The last two speakers of a millennia - old language haven't spoken in 50 years, when a young linguist tries to bring them together.

While there has been first - class work by university linguists, arguably not enough has been done to translate this into effective teaching practice.

«You are not competent» — to a Teach First consultant - «I am a national leader in in education» — as if that meant anything — was perhaps a more extreme example of this arrogance, from someone who employed 6 TF linguists, and then would not let them teach any languages.

«We have extended this flexibility to all academies so more schools can hire great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists who have not worked in state schools before.

Babies are not natural born linguists.

Turley said the results shouldn't come as a surprise, since linguists know nurturing a student in one language can help him or her better understand another language.

For instance, every linguist and dialect coach (notice I didn't say ACCENT coach) defines a dialect as the variances in speech (including syntax, common, colloquial expressions as well as the differing ways they are pronounced)-- something every person on the planet who doesn't know better will call an «ACCENT»; i.e., Southern accents when compared to a Mid-West accent when compared to a general Brooklyn accent.

These are people who aren't supposed to remember what it's like to even smell books,» said Naomi S. Baron, an American University linguist who studies digital communication.

Obsession with work, the economy and plain old love take center stage in this month's science fiction and fantasy selections.While preparing for a documentary about his life in The Atlantis Code, linguist Thomas Lourds is shown a strange artifact featuring a language that even he, the foremost authority on ancient languages, can not identify.