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Hall says he then started speaking in "Black-dialect, characterized by a different conjugation...
...language problem is only the first barrier to understanding. Many deaf people have only a rudimentary understanding of anatomy, disease and medicine. African-American deaf people, who employ their own dialect of ASL, are yet more isolated from mainstream information -- and so more endangered. Residential schools for the deaf tend to be more puritanical than those for the hearing, and sex education is less comprehensive. Some social scientists also believe that needle drug use is higher because of alienation and loneliness. Even excluding such theories, says Susan Karchmer of Gallaudet University, the world's only four-year liberal-arts school...
...club of my own to feel like I care about who I am. I don't want to separate myself from other people who speak Spanish just because there are distinct political problems happening in the various countries that represent my origin or because there is a different dialect or slang in our common language. More and more I am feeling that to join one of these clubs would be to adhere to the belief that separation means identification, and I don't want to be identified that...
This, you ask, is the stuff of comedy? No, not exactly. It is the pretext for comedy -- wonderful comedy, maybe the best of the year. For The Snapper (the word is local dialect for a baby) isn't really about making mistakes. It's about how, as Sharon comes to term, the Curley family all come to terms with what she's done, with themselves and with the little gossiping corner of the world they inhabit...
...better consumer-goods managers are using these facts to advantage. Distillers Remy Martin and Courvoisier regularly run Mandarin- and Cantonese- dialect Cognac ads in Chinese newspapers and magazines. And meat packer Hormel & Co. designed some of Spam's in-store promotional displays in Korean. Others have stumbled. A New York Life Insurance Co. ad designed to appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced...