The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... human activity is more remarkable , more constantly and universally with us than speech . No man can know himself without knowing his speech . One who has honestly analyzed the elements of his speech has at the same time gone a long way ...
... human activity is more remarkable , more constantly and universally with us than speech . No man can know himself without knowing his speech . One who has honestly analyzed the elements of his speech has at the same time gone a long way ...
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... human society has ever known . This dissolv- ing agent is the English language , and so far as language goes , and so far as the elements of the civilization of man- kind may be determined by language , all the diverse racial and ...
... human society has ever known . This dissolv- ing agent is the English language , and so far as language goes , and so far as the elements of the civilization of man- kind may be determined by language , all the diverse racial and ...
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... human beings , and since language is such an imperfect medium of com- munication , it thus becomes impossible for any human " being ever to know or to understand any other human 26 ENGLISH DIALECTS.
... human beings , and since language is such an imperfect medium of com- munication , it thus becomes impossible for any human " being ever to know or to understand any other human 26 ENGLISH DIALECTS.
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... human being know another human being since between them there always must lie this dusky area of variation ? And since there are no ways of measur- ing it , no one can tell how vast may be this " Unplumbed , salt , estranging sea ...
... human being know another human being since between them there always must lie this dusky area of variation ? And since there are no ways of measur- ing it , no one can tell how vast may be this " Unplumbed , salt , estranging sea ...
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... humanity attempted to hold and to apply this idea in the practices of living would it become obscured and broken into many fragmentary representations of the original unity . But this pleasing myth of the law - giver has lost its ...
... humanity attempted to hold and to apply this idea in the practices of living would it become obscured and broken into many fragmentary representations of the original unity . But this pleasing myth of the law - giver has lost its ...
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accepted acquired adjective Anglo-Saxon appear authority become beginning called carried century character common completely concerned correctness cultivated definition determined dialect dictionary direct distinction elements English language example existence experience expression fact familiar feeling follow formal forms French gender Germanic give grammar habits human important indicated individual Indo-European inflectional intelligible interest kind knowledge Latin learned less limits linguistic literary literature living logical matter meaning merely mind Modern English nature never noun object observation origin past perhaps period person phrase plural poetry popular possessive possible practical present pronounced pronunciation prose question reason regarded regular relation remain respect result rules seems sense sentence simple social sounds speak speaker speech spelling structure student style term things thought tion traditional verb vocabulary vowel whole words writing