Sentences with phrase «of language sounds»

Perhaps it is because so much of our language sounds the same.

The babies listened to a series of language sounds while wearing an electroencephalography (EEG) cap to measure their brain activity.

Not exact matches

Inspired by Braille and Tadoma, a method of communication for the blind and and deaf, researchers were able to teach participants to feel four of the sounds that form the building blocks of language within three minutes.

In comes transliterate - you just type in the phonetic sounds of the language, and it converts it into the desired language.

That's what Tom Lix calls his version of it, anyway, using language that sounds borrowed from those revered business strategists Beavis and Butt - Head.

Developing A.I. that can study contracts for uncommon language or clauses isn't quite as straightforward as it might sound — the software wouldn't be very useful if it flagged every uncommon piece of information.

He's already demonstrated simultaneous translation in his lab, allowing academic lecturers to give presentations in one language to a room full of people who receive it in another via special speakers that direct sound.

«Given that she states her goal is accuracy and verification, that sounds like the language for an audit,» Ned Foley, the director of Election Law at Moritz at Ohio State's law school tells Business Insider.

This sounds like the same sort of language we heard going after Vegas, right, about the bump stocks.

The story of the Tower of Babel sounds like an ancient folktale to explain the origin of languages.

Much biblical language is refined and elevated, and while many Englishmen were doubtless delighted to discover Pharaoh had a proper butler, the KJV often sounded artificial and abstruse to them because the translators frequently followed biblical idiom and syntax and not the language and idiom of their contemporaries.

The psalmists were poets and I began to absorb beauty, the sounds and repetitions, and became a contemplative — realising that language was not just telling me something but inviting me into a world of language that was more about what you couldn't see than what you could.

Anthony Kiedis and Alexander Pope may be centuries apart, but they both use the sounds of language to imbue words with mnemonic power.

And if the sound and the fire were not enough, many of the disciples were enabled to speak in other languages (Acts 2:3 - 4).

CNN: Picking up a bagel instead of a partisan fight Translation headsets squawked in four languages at the early morning breakfast in Washington, mixing in with the sounds of stirred coffee and clinking china in the immense ballroom at the Washington Hilton.

In spite of all my Pentecostal enthusiasm and prayer, my tongue could not manage to pronounce certain key sounds crucial to the language.

When the New Testament talks about the final end of the wicked, it uses language that sounds like total extinction.

The language of spiritual affectivity they often hear from the pulpit sounds like meaningless mumbo - jumbo to a person more used to reading a technical manual or, worse, more used to figuring things out on their own.

The language of print is much more concerned with meaning than with sound, as it should be.

Even if he knows how to hide it from men, even if he hides it from himself, even if the true expression of the language seems for a moment to hide it by calling his condition of mind self - will, willfulness, for that sounds well, especially when it is strong enough to venture the most extreme things: does that seem to be double - mindedness?

When the Old Testament talks about the final end of the wicked, it uses language that sounds like total extinction.

The language of ideology sounds great; it reflects concern for others and notable religious principles, but it also happens to protect a self - seeking, status - quo theory or social practice.

Moreover, despite the claim of some contemporary KJV loyalists to love its superb literary qualities, it is no longer clear to us whether its language really is poetic or whether it sounds poetic to us simply because it is from the KJV.

That is, as an aesthetic object which finds completeness in performance but which is brought into the liturgical frame in order to be broken by a different, but related «language of actions, a language of sounds».

When some Korean theologians spoke of «reaching the unreached», Bishop Victor Premasagar, then Moderator of the Church of South India, retorted, «This language of reaching the unreached sounds like God is fast asleep, and we are running around like busy bodies.

As a Communication Act: The Birth of a Performance, by Richard F. Ward Performance is a resource for homiletics because it addresses this problem of integrating language, sound and movement in an oral, interpretive act in human communication.

It is astonishing to hear even people of high achievement and excellent reputation use mean and foul language on many occasions, as though such effusions had no real significance, being mere sounds which are dispersed as soon as they are said.

As early as the spring of 1980, the ministry began dubbing the film's sound track into other languages to take the cinematic Jesus abroad.

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

A «new approach» to music, on the other hand, may approach «sonic design» or the «organization of sound» from four perspectives: musical space, time and rhythm, musical language, tone color.»

So Laurence Tribe» who ought to know» acknowledges «the possibility of making noises in the Constitution's language that sound like an argument for just about anything,» and he frets that «the text of the Constitution can be read to justify just about any decision» and so can safely be ignored.»

All this sounds very much as though the traditional language of the faith were being excised as an act of concession to modern ears untrained, untuned, and uninterested.

With the introduction of script, later intensified by print, the visual (space) aspect of language becomes more important than the sound (time) aspect.

The sound in the room was a mix of English, Spanish, Mam and Quiché — Central American languages.

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

Although their language would sound quaint today, a dualistic view of human nature torn by the lure of the flesh against the spirit has simply gone underground.

In West Africa where commercial enterprises give women a fair amount of economic independence, there is an invidious language that disparages this and makes it sound unnatural for women to be wealthy.

You may consider «something greater than ourselves» to be a bit too religious sounding, and I might agree because I'm not a fan of feeling like we need religious language, but that puts me more in the Dirac camp than the Einstein camp.

In the nature of sound he finds the true individuality of a language, each people showing, in its system of sounds, its unique preferences.

Hence language can be defined as «the ever repeated activity of the mind, fashioning the articulated sound as a vehicle for thoughts.»

A language consists of two constituents: it sounds and its capacity for articulation.

The thing had a faintly»70s flavour — Daily Mail headlines sounding appropriately shocked etc — and the story, as it emerged from the layers of cliché, was not particularly impressive: something called the «Transformations Steering Group» had announced that Anglican bishops should promote more «expansive language and imagery about God».

A lot of his language about objects, or «eternal objects» ingressing into the process, sounds Platonic, as though they came from «outside,» but I think there is more possibility of a tenable interpretation if we take it that one patterned event passes on into another either by repetition or modification.

As queer theorist Hanne Blank recounts, «This new concept [of heterosexuality], gussied up in a mangled mix of impressive - sounding dead languages, gave old orthodoxies a new and vibrant lease on life by suggesting, in authoritative tones, that science had effectively pronounced them natural, inevitable, and innate.»

Munich professor of theology Wolthart Pannenberg, sounding strikingly like a social scientist, has observed that «it is only by symbols and symbolic language that the larger community to which we belong is present in our experiences and activities.

If this sounds like the language of Eastern religion, it is not.

You butcher the English language daily and your ranting sound dangerously on the brink of insanity.

So now that this issue has been brought much more to public light because of the passing of this harmful bill in Uganda, suddenly we have different language — much softer, much more compassionate; that sounds much less like an agenda was met.

And I very much enjoy writing for the sound of the Latin language, which obviously has something in that it has endured as long as it has.

Emphasis upon an «unbound» Christ already present among people of various religious faiths may sound as though it fits more congenially with traditional mission language; and emphasis upon the saving action of God's spirit with people of other faiths may sound more congenial to those of the dialogue tradition, who are concerned that the dialogue partners be affirmed in their own right.