Language of the Specialists: A Communications Guide to Twenty Different FieldsMario Pei This work is an attempt to provide a sample of vocabulary from the specialized fields for the lay person to consume in order that they might wade into those fields more deeply. |
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... guage of Aristotle was practically synonymous with the language of the learned world . Through the Stoics , espe- cially Cicero , and through Boethius ( d . 525 ) , it had some currency even in the earlier Middle Ages , but what really ...
... guage of Aristotle was practically synonymous with the language of the learned world . Through the Stoics , espe- cially Cicero , and through Boethius ( d . 525 ) , it had some currency even in the earlier Middle Ages , but what really ...
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... guage of philosophy has remained fairly intelligible to the ordinary reader . Exception must be made of those philoso- phers for whom the passion for originality dictates the invention of a totally new and idiosyncratic technical lan- guage ...
... guage of philosophy has remained fairly intelligible to the ordinary reader . Exception must be made of those philoso- phers for whom the passion for originality dictates the invention of a totally new and idiosyncratic technical lan- guage ...
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... guage of many people is unacceptable in the parlors of others . Slang , this level of usage is several steps lower than that of colloquial language , but its principle remains the same ; it is the language used by people when they feel ...
... guage of many people is unacceptable in the parlors of others . Slang , this level of usage is several steps lower than that of colloquial language , but its principle remains the same ; it is the language used by people when they feel ...
Contents
LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
LANGUAGE OF MILITARY AFFAIRS | 20 |
LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY | 61 |
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