Entertainment / Literature / Isolating Language: In now obsolete language studies, linguists used the label 'isolating' to refer to a language with words that tend not to vary--i.e., one in which each idea tends to be expressed by a single monosyllabic word and compounding is rare or nonexistent. European scholars in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century often held up Chinese as a sample isolating language and classified it as a 'primitive' or 'undeveloped language,' but further study indicated that Mandarin Chinese was actually quite ancient, and in fact, originally had been much more polysyllabic. This discovery demolished the simplistic model of agglutinative linguistic development current in older centuries.
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Language Noun Synonyms: jargon, lingua franca, vocabulary, terminology, vernacular, lingo
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Entertainment / Literature / Ov Language: A language that tends to place the grammatical object before the verb in a sentence. Japanese is an example of an OV language. Contrast with VO languages. (pronounced 'oh-vee') MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Paralanguage: The non-verbal features that accompany speech and help convey meaning. For example, facial expression, gesticulation, body stance, and tone can help convey additional meaning to the spoken word, these MORE
Entertainment / Ice Hockey / Profane Language: Players will not use obscene gestures on the ice, (sure they won?t) or anywhere in the rink before, during or after the game. We wonder how long after the game and does this count for the off-season MORE