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  • 'turn away' from the scene. o In pragmatics, the origo is the reference point on which deictic relationships are based.

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  • 'turn away' from the scene. o In pragmatics, the origo is the reference point on which deictic relationships are based.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows geniusroi 2010

  • The reflector of fiction forms a deictic centre, an 'origo', around which objects are positioned relative to their relative proximity or distance to the reflector.

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  • The reflector of fiction forms a deictic centre, an 'origo', around which objects are positioned relative to their relative proximity or distance to the reflector.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows geniusroi 2010

  • The first place finisher (12,100 votes) was Mike Quigley, a Cook County commissioner best known for having quarreled with the Stroger dynasty, second only to the Daleys as fons et origo of Chicagoland corruption.

    Replacing Rahm 2009

  • Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the first significant steps towards becoming the fons et origo of jazz improvisation: not just the first of the music's major solo voices, emerging loud and clear and unmistakably individual from the collective polyphony of early New Orleans jazz, but the figure who first revealed the inherent nobility of an idiom born in the humblest of material circumstances.

    Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

  • The first place finisher (12,100 votes) was Mike Quigley, a Cook County commissioner best known for having quarreled with the Stroger dynasty, second only to the Daleys as fons et origo of Chicagoland corruption.

    Illinois Politics 2010

  • Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the first significant steps towards becoming the fons et origo of jazz improvisation: not just the first of the music's major solo voices, emerging loud and clear and unmistakably individual from the collective polyphony of early New Orleans jazz, but the figure who first revealed the inherent nobility of an idiom born in the humblest of material circumstances.

    Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

  • But we can, and should, go back even further, to the fons et origo of this sort of thing: the coterie of literary wingnuts who have insisted that Shakespeare was simply too oafish, ill-educated and country-bred to write the plays attributed to him.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the first significant steps towards becoming the fons et origo of jazz improvisation: not just the first of the music's major solo voices, emerging loud and clear and unmistakably individual from the collective polyphony of early New Orleans jazz, but the figure who first revealed the inherent nobility of an idiom born in the humblest of material circumstances.

    Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

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