Sentences with phrase «seem language and culture»

Human babies have also been shown to discriminate between different quantities at ages so young that it would seem language and culture couldn't have yet played much of a role.

Not exact matches

It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.

It would be foolish to predict so far into the future, but it seems unlikely that any will equal the King James Version not only in terms of longevity, but in its capacity to shape the language and culture of the English - speaking peoples.

The appalling rule of the Romanovs, the grotesque privileges of the aristocrats, the obscurantism of the church, the harshness of the courts, the systematic attempts to wipe out other languages and cultures — none of that seems very encouraging.

Although I am not too sure what the difference between the serbs and croats were in the Bosinan wars if it was not orthodox v Catholicism as I am not sure how else a divide between the people could be formed (the official croatian language is almost identical to the Serbian language (with a few exceptions) and the culture seems quite similar).

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Of course, given our immersion in a culture for which these categories seem as connatural as the English language, uprooting them from our vocabulary and worldview will not be anything like a simple task.

While studying their language and culture, Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller, anthropologists at the University of Bergen in Norway, were astonished to find a mathematical system that seems to mix base - 10 and base - 2.

Gardner was interested to see if all cultures defined intelligence in terms of language arts and mathematical skills the way our Western educational culture seems to.

McLaughlin, though unintentionally, also seems to further the idea that being introduced to a different language - and by extension its culture - at a young age produces more open - minded individuals who don't view the «bilingual» as having an «alien way of thinking» but rather as a person having a different opinion or view.

This may seem a bit strange, but the Naming Committee exists because they are the ones who decide whether or not new names are a good fit with the country's language and culture.