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...their children to live with them in the U.S. Julio, 18, and Carlos, 15, moved to the Hamptons from Tuxpan almost a decade ago with their parents Julio Sr. and Yadira. The boys grew up on PlayStations, sledding in the winter and pool parties in the summer. They speak accentless English and for most of their childhood were average happy-go-lucky small-town kids. But because the brothers were born in Mexico, they have no legal American papers, no Social Security numbers. And that means they are not able to apply for federal college loans or even prove that...
...funny. Podhoretz, growing up poor in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, spoke with such a fierce Brooklyn accent that after he told a teacher "I goink op de stez" ("I'm going up the stairs"), he was placed in a remedial English class that left him speaking English of accentless, place-neutral gentility. He credits this development with much of his later success (Columbia University, Oxford, his long career among the New York intellectuals). The family back in Brooklyn would demand, from time to time, "So what is he, a joinalist...
...voice that results in an almost singsong effect. Another Gulf coastal plain element: he drops what linguists call postvocalic rs in such words as go-phuh (gopher) and Cot-tuh. According to Pederson, however, the younger generation of Gulf coastal plains people, who have been exposed to accentless network television and modern speech courses, pronounce...
...days are filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...
...rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army during World War II), Behr became well-acquainted with the secretive rebel leaders who run the war from Tunis, and with their enemies, the white settlers in Algeria. He and TIME Photographer Pierre Boulat were the only newsmen behind the barricades with...