Language is often a reflection of the culture that shapes it, impacting tone, idioms, dialects and even silence across regions.
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Ryan Kolln,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.
When added up, all the trims that go into a garment—threads, elastics, labels, drawstrings and more—comprise roughly 40 percent of its bill of materials.
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Sarah Jones,
Footwear News,
18 June 2026
Yan and his colleagues used sound waves to encode a stream of data, including images and labels that identified those images.
That’s for sure when people speak patois, a vernacular version of English that’s based on a culture’s intonation.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
Real Miami-Dade officers, often occupying background roles, interacted in character during those stretches as well, sustaining the casual banter and shared patois of a working unit.
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