speech island
语音岛,言语岛,语言岛,讲话岛
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Linguistics.
- : a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
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Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.
A volcano broke out in the island of St. George, one of the Azores.