The Feasibility of Banana Peelings as Source of Vinegar
Original Text: from page 317 of the book Psychology, 1996 by Richard Gross
But it is not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar. In the Hopi language, no distinction is made between past, present and future; it is a ‘timeless language’ (compared with English), although it does recognise duration, i.e. how long an event lasts. In European languages, ‘time’ is treated as an objective entity, as if it were a ruler with equal spaces or intervals marked off, and there is a clear demarcation between past, present and future (corresponding to three separate sections of the ruler).
DIRECT QUOTATION
According to Gross (1996, p. 317), it is “not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar”. An example of this might be…
OR
Furthermore, it is “not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar” (Gross, 1996, p. 317). An example of this might be…
OR
Writing about Hopi, a Native American language, Gross writes:
In the Hopi language, no distinction is made between past, present and future; it is a ‘timeless language’ (compared with English), although it does recognise duration, i.e. how long an event lasts. In European languages, ‘time’ is treated as an objective entity (Gross, 1996, p. 317).
The distinction drawn between the languages treatment of time is interesting and relevant to this argument because…
Wines drunk at Greek tables did not always come from Greece itself. The wine snobbery of the time extolled the merits of wines from the slopes of Mount Lebanon, from Palestine, Egypt and Magna Graecia-Greater Greece, i.e., southern Italy. The ten litres a day drunk by the famous wrestler Milo of Croton was a wine famous in Calabria, where Milo lived: this wine, Ciro, is still made.
PARAPHRASE
Original Text: from page 263 of A History of Food, 1992, by Maguelone
But it is not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar. In the Hopi language, no distinction is made between past, present and future; it is a ‘timeless language’ (compared with English), although it does recognise duration, i.e. how long an event lasts. In European languages, ‘time’ is treated as an objective entity, as if it were a ruler with equal spaces or intervals marked off, and there is a clear demarcation between past, present and future (corresponding to three separate sections of the ruler).
DIRECT QUOTATION
According to Gross (1996, p. 317), it is “not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar”. An example of this might be…
OR
Furthermore, it is “not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar” (Gross, 1996, p. 317). An example of this might be…
OR
Writing about Hopi, a Native American language, Gross writes:
In the Hopi language, no distinction is made between past, present and future; it is a ‘timeless language’ (compared with English), although it does recognise duration, i.e. how long an event lasts. In European languages, ‘time’ is treated as an objective entity (Gross, 1996, p. 317).
The distinction drawn between the languages treatment of time is interesting and relevant to this argument because…
Wines drunk at Greek tables did not always come from Greece itself. The wine snobbery of the time extolled the merits of wines from the slopes of Mount Lebanon, from Palestine, Egypt and Magna Graecia-Greater Greece, i.e., southern Italy. The ten litres a day drunk by the famous wrestler Milo of Croton was a wine famous in Calabria, where Milo lived: this wine, Ciro, is still made.
PARAPHRASE
Original Text: from page 263 of A History of Food, 1992, by Maguelone