Example sentences for: dosae

How can you use “dosae” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • DOSAE shows attention to detail, provides extensive definitions with detailed cross references, has broad phonetic transcriptions and, above all, provides delightful illustrative sentences from historical and contemporary sources.

  • (To be consistent, the DOSAE would have to indicate the word for left in all languages that appear in road signs in different parts of the country--Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana).

  • There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.

  • On the whole, I recommend DOSAE highly for anyone wishing to get to grips with English in South Africa.

  • This is not a problem peculiar to DOSAE ; rather, it is one of the strongest challenges facing lexicographers of a vast number of languages in the twenty-first century, as English continues to spread, influence, and be influenced by languages all over the world in situations of intimate language contact.


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