world-language

Such a reading is based, first, on the supposed discrepancy between Wittgenstein's construction of a world-language system, which takes up the bulk of the

Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

The only vital consideration is the value of the output in the general terms of all races; and indeed all great folk-music, like any other kind, speaks, for those who have ears to hear, a world-language and not a dialect.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

In the world-language of Barsoom she heard a man issuing instructions -- so many were to pick usa, so many were to irrigate this field, so many to cultivate that, and so on, as a foreman lay out the day's work for his crew.

The Chessmen of Mars 1922

Austrians said was that German was a world-language and that it was a fad to want to learn Slovene.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

In the world-language of Barsoom she heard a man issuing instructions -- so many were to pick usa, so many were to irrigate this field, so many to cultivate that, and so on, as a foreman lay out the day's work for his crew.

The Chessmen of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

When Greek became a world-language, as it did after the conquests of Alexander, it had to surrender much of its delicacy, but it still remained an effective instrument of thought and

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

Most of those who regarded English as the coming world-language admitted that it would require improvement for general use.

The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

India this nation whose language is becoming the world-language, and lay her open to be held as part of that world-wide empire, in order that her

Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890

a world-language; and like the English people, appears destined hereafter to prevail with a sway more extensive even than its present over all the portions of the globe {36}.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

It may truly be called a world-language, for no other can compare with it in richness, reasonableness, and solidity of texture.”

The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild