Sentences with phrase «using ordinary speech»

Not exact matches

It is acceptable in ordinary speech to simplify complexities and use a language that is least encumbered by intricacies.

Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

Process thought uses its key words not unfamiliar in ordinary speech - words such as «event,» «process, organism,» «sentience» and «internal relations.»

In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama's community organizer background at her speech at the RNC, the Obama campaign has already sent out a mass fundraising email using her remarks as a hook: «Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?

Ordinary people seem to love using idioms, metaphors and figurative speech, whether to aid communication or simply to make life more interesting, whereas for autistic people they simply make no sense.

The artist — a Chicago native who today divides his time between New York City and Marfa, Texas — is perhaps best known for his paintings of large stenciled letters, which he uses to form words or phrases, often abbreviated or arranged in run - on configurations that disrupt ordinary patterns of perception and speech.