modern language in English
noun
any of the literary languages currently in use that is a departmental course of study in universities and colleges; any language that is spoken in these times (as opposed to ancient languages such as Latin, Greek, etc.)
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1. Affiliations : The Modern Language Association
2. How far back does modern language go?
3. Example of a Bibliography formatted following Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines.
4. The polyhedral surfaces discussed above are, in modern language, two-dimensional finite CW-complexes.
5. “‘Crazy for This Democracy’: Psychoanalytic Theory and African American Autopathography,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Boston, MA, February 2009
6. Modern language has picked up on the biblical description and uses the word Behemoth to mean “anything of monstrous size or power.” The way the Behemoth is described in Job 40 gives us the idea that this animal, familiar to Job, was an unstoppable, fearless creature.