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Many Hindus do not have a copy of the Vedas nor have they ever seen or personally read parts of a Veda, like a Christian, might relate to the Bible or a Muslim might to the Quran. Yet, states Lipner, "this does not mean that their [Hindus] whole life's orientation cannot be traced to the Vedas or that it does not in some way derive from it". [90]
There is no life without water. [10] It has been described as the universal solvent for its ability to dissolve many substances, [11] [12] and as the solvent of life. [13] Water is the only common substance to exist as a solid, liquid, and gas under conditions normal to life on Earth. [14]
By a high-minded man we seem to mean one who claims much and deserves much: for he who claims much without deserving it is a fool; but the possessor of a virtue is never foolish or silly. The man we have described, then, is high-minded.
Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, [1] particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.
By definition, as a vernacular dialect of English, AAVE has not received the social prestige of a standard dialect, leading to widespread and long-standing misconceptions that it is a grammatically inferior form of English, which linguistics research of the twentieth century has debunked.
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Case grammar is a system of linguistic analysis, focusing on the link between the valence, or number of subjects, objects, etc., of a verb and the grammatical context it requires. The system was created by the American linguist Charles J. Fillmore in the context of Transformational Grammar (1968).
In Carney's test wordlist, all eight words with cei conform to this rule, which he thus describes as being a "marginal" rule with an "efficiency" of 100%. [29] Rarer words not in the wordlist may not conform; for example, in haecceity, ceilidh, and enceinte the ei represents / iː. ɪ /, / eɪ /, and / æ / respectively. [30]