Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

