sapir

IPA: sʌpˈɪr

Root Word: Sapir

Examples of "sapir" in Sentences

If you want to go all sapir-whorf on things, then I'd really rather listen to rap, cause rap has an attitude.
Unanimous, resistible and oh so deftly clustered, nonsyllabic is creaseless for the sapir or for panoptical into your mothproof hygrodeik.
The Khalifa took the long pipe from his mouth and spoke; his slow, sonorous accents falling melodiously on the silence in the lingua sapir of the Franco-Arab tongue.
April 17, 2008 at 11:42 am though we don’t look kindly on the sapir-whorf hypothesis, i enjoyed this quotation. yes, i still insist on saying quotation rather than quote as a noun.
Thus, as Greg implies, the use of "on" and "in" indicates a universal (ie, anti-sapir-whorfian and pro-formalist, yay!) mental mechanism, though the objects this mechanism crunches (virtual worlds, for instance) might indeed sway in the fickle breezes of the cultural wikipedia.
He had had a drinking bout with the men who had left him, and had laughed as gayly and as carelessly, if not as riotously, as any of them at the wild mirth, the unbridled license, the amatory recitations, and the Bacchic odes in their lawless sapir, that had ushered the night in while his wines unlocked the tongues and flowed down the throats of the fierce Arab-Spahis and the French cavalrymen.