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(I've made an intentional lapsus linguae, which makes for a perfect pun)
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(I've made an intentional lapsus linguae, which makes for a perfect pun)
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Pulls her lower lip out — the frenulum linguae, that delicate little flap holding the lip to the gum at its center.
Sharp Was the Blade: chapter/excert from novel: Found Things 2009
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Yet regarding Massimo Pallottino's crucial list of Etruscan inscriptions called Testimonia linguae Etruscae TLE, after months of witnessing its absence on the shelf at the U of M, I was told nonchalantly by a librarian I spoke to that it was probably stolen.
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Elegantiae linguae Latinae, a manual for the correct use of Latin syntax and vocabulary, which became a bestseller throughout Europe.
Lorenzo Valla Nauta, Lodi 2009
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Lieberman has a function for McCain -- that of a two-legged teleprompter -- that pulls McNitwit back from the edge during one of those notorious lapses linguae (sp) moments which seem to be multiplying lately.
Top Lieberman Campaign Official: We Begged Obama For Help In 2006 -- And He Came Through 2009
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This caused a somewhat embarrassing stir in a classroom when a friend tried to refer to the Kantian professor as ‘Dr. Kant’ and then made a further… er… lapsus linguae.
¡Papeles para tod@s! 1 May 2009, 3:30 PM @ Commercial Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 2009
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Pulls her lower lip out — thefrenulum linguae, that delicate little flap holding the lip to the gum at its center.
Sharp Was the Blade: chapter/excert from novel: Found Things 2009
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The edition of Leibniz's philosophical works in Latin and French, published by Rudolph Erich Raspe (Leibniz 1765; cf. Hallo 1934) contained some up to then unpublished letters and six pieces from the unpublished papers, of which two, “Difficultates quaedam logicae” and “Historia et commendatio linguae charactericae”, are relevant to logic.
Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009
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Two years later his projected but uncompleted statement on metaphysics appeared, De antiquissima Italorum sapientia ex linguae originibus eruenda librir tres (On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language).
Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008
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