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Meanings of
ordinary language
in English
A language which has developed over time as a result of the innate human ability for language.
natural language
Usage of
ordinary language
in English
1
The more complicated culture becomes, the less reliable, relatively, is
ordinary
language
.
2
He would have preferred to listen to the
ordinary
language
of reproach.
3
All questions should be discussed in
ordinary
language
and business-like style.
4
Indeed, transposition is to
ordinary
language
what repetition is to comedy.
5
Yes, that sounds all very well in
ordinary
language
,
but are there any?
6
This is the case with what is written in the
ordinary
language
of books.
7
This was the
ordinary
language
of gallantry-yetit was different.
8
That his
ordinary
language
on the platform is balderdash and blasphemy is not true.
9
Everybody knows what life and death, in
ordinary
language
,
imply.
10
The fish simply could not be described with
ordinary
language
.
11
Let us follow Hogben in a few simple exercises in translating mathematics into
ordinary
language
:
12
Some propositions occur in
ordinary
language
in which the quantity of the predicate is determined.
13
This is the very nearest interpretation into
ordinary
language
of the meaning of the text.
14
But enough remains to show a poet who transforms the ordinary in apparently
ordinary
language
.
15
The rest of us have not improved
ordinary
language
.
16
Here, too, the forms, or, in
ordinary
language
,
the masses of set-up type, were washed.
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This collocation consists of:
ordinary
language
ordinary
Adjective
Noun
Ordinary language
through the time
Ordinary language
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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