Word: dialectical
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...will lose that strength. Why? Because if we make English the official language, then we must officially define what English is and is not. The French did this with their mother tongue, and what was once the international language of diplomacy has become an increasingly unimportant and backwater dialect. Joseph Power Mountain View, California...
...where a lengthy meeting took place. Afterward, Lere saw Reinado at Tasi Tolu. "He told me he has approval to take action," Reinado recalls. "I said, 'You do it without any written order or justification.'" He says Lere was not using official procedures, instead issuing commands in his eastern dialect: "I just sit and watch how they do it. Everything is out of control. They are using the guerrilla system of giving orders," Reindado says. "The intention is to go there to shoot to kill. To kill them all if they can. They give ammunition to the soldiers, who take...
...entirely different meaning in Japan. Ostensibly focused only on terrorism, in Japan the law is really about xenophobia. An ethnically homogeneous island-country that has been virtually cut off from the outside world for centuries at a time, Japan is a relatively insular place. Despite slight regional variations in dialect, climate, and food, it often exudes the sense of being one large, middle-class neighborhood, comfortably indifferent to what goes on outside its precincts. As one can imagine, Japan has not always received foreigners with particular ease or enthusiasm. The country has some of the most restrictive immigration laws...
...Irish Shakespeare. Sure, he may have lived and written some 300 years after the Bard himself, but never mind that. According to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, Synge’s “Playboy” overcomes its heavy use of dialect and antiquated setting—early 20th-century Ireland—to achieve a certain universality and applicability, even for modern audiences...
...race is more than color, and therein lies the fascination of Black. White. In learning to "pass," both families have to address awkward questions that people rarely discuss in mixed racial company. What does it mean to "talk white" or "walk black"? (Both families meet with consultants, including a dialect coach.) And can you discuss cultural differences without falling into stereotypes? In the first episode, Brian and Renee point out that a black woman would not ask as many personal questions as Carmen does. "Your nature is to be more curious," Brian tells her. (Imagine a white man observing that...