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- noun
appropriateness , especially in one's choice oflanguage
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Examples
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What interests me is the idea that a word like "appropriacy" can be said to exist even though the most comprehensive dictionary of the English Language the large OED doesn't include it
On tolerating DC 2008
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Nicky also gave the practical example of how wanna and gonna can be a useful analogy to help students understand/accept that the issue is appropriacy (rather than a black and white dichotomy like ‘correct/incorrect’ etc).
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The reason that the gap between E3 and E1 is so hard to bridge is that (a) the language described for EFL teaching purposes bears only a notional resemblance to the language used by native speakers (as corpus linguists have demonstrated) and (b) the likelihood of most EFL learners ever achieving native-like proficiency is remote, to say the least (not to mention issues of appropriacy, identity etc).
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In education systems, language is often stripped of its appropriacy, and based on ‘knowledge about’ formal written language.
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This is why the NO has to be abolished here as it has brought a distorted sense of appropriacy in liturgical matters.
More from Cardinal Arinze on inculturation and liturgical "updating" 2009
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