Apple products currently support only 50 languages, none of which is a Native American language.
The American language became the richest in the world, because the settlers encountered so many different kinds of people.
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When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
Starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, it relates how a unit of Navajo field-communications soldiers uses a derivative of their Native American language to encrypt radio messages in the Pacific Theater.
After the next few days, the name Sandy will survive in the lexicon of the American language as one of the worst storms on record that battered the Eastern United States.
Today respective leaders of the US and the UK still talk about the "special relationship" that started during WWII, and though it irks some, Americanisms still pervade British language, just as Britishisms are creeping into American language.
While there is written evidence dating back to 1821 indicating such a language existed, beginning in the 1940s it started to get largely phased out in favor of American Sign Language.
Currently, there is a national shortage of sign language interpreters in the United States, even though there are 40 schools offering bachelor degree programs in American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting and 78 that offer associate degrees.
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While she cannot actually type, the 26-year-old western lowland gorilla is fluent in modified American sign language.
The IRS has short and informative YouTube videos on tax related topics in English, Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL).
Baby boomers facing the possibility of neurological disorders, strokes and accident trauma contribute to the positive job trend, says Lemmietta McNeilly, chief staff officer of speech-language pathology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
They've always been part of the great American stew of language, food, music and hard work.
With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.
In valleys and villages half a world away, they remember him -- the American who spoke their language, who respected their culture and who helped them defend their country.
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She speaks English in slogans, having learnt the language from watching American television.
Realizing that the Navajo tongue had no link to any Asian or European language, the American military recruited 420 Indians to convey messages in the Pacific.
This sheer numerical dominance, plus the fact that China has the world's fastest-growing economy, has made Mandarin Chinese attractive as a foreign language for more American students.
Second, the White House needs to speak in plain language to the American people about what needs to be done, so it harnesses their legitimate anger and anxiety and continues to inspire their confidence and hope.
Out of it a new lexicon was born: the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1969.
According to Dictionary.com, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, included the term with essentially the same definition in 2000.
As "American English" is my first language, I agreed with her.
Increasingly, American unions are returning to the language of redistributive justice.
Glenda Gloria, a Manila-based author and historian, notes that residents of the Philippines' Muslim provinces frequently traveled back and forth between Malaysia and Indonesia, trading and speaking a similar language before European and American colonizers introduced national boundaries.
All the young people in the village speak the language, a rarity among American Indian tribes.
Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
Tribal worthies and American officers grin at each other across the language divide.
By the time researchers learn how to make one technology function in a language other than English, new American upgrades are out.
And the language has - and rhetoric in American discourse has often been very, very angry and has a lot of tension in it.
Hollywood's position is underpinned by the enormous size of its home market, by the world's gargantuan appetite for screened entertainment, and by its extraordinary ability to exploit the appeal of American culture and the spread of the English language.
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