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...This absence speaks very loudly for the obvious rejection of African languages as legitimate education," Isaacs said. "I have even been asked if African languages have grammar and syntax," he added...
...weeks before the convention, Ford and Hartmann began meeting several hours every day to sharpen the language and cast it to fit the President's oratorical style. Sentences were trimmed, syntax simplified, demanding rhetorical devices eliminated. On Sunday, Aug. 8, Hartmann spent a long working session with the President at Camp David...
...speech from the platform is usually cultivated and unpretentious. He pronounces both the b and the h in humble. In relaxed conversation, however, he probably does use might could, done dead, ain 't, multiple negatives and more than a few other folk forms of vocabulary, morphology and syntax...
...poised, waiting for the serve. He speaks in lean sentences, quoting Aristotle, the Bible, and Dylan Thomas. He tosses erudite quips over the heads of his listeners and so appreciates precision of language that he once signed a well-written petition for Soviet Jews, 'as much for the syntax as the substance...
...impossible task, and learning their language is not a thing that can be done with the Widener Library detachment to which Alan is accustomed; language in this instance implies more than just definitions, and its "deep structure" has to do with patterns of culture as well as just syntax...