Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, it is the glitches that will be remembered. The fumbles in Warsaw by two interpreters who seemed unable to convert Jimmy Carter's English into accurate Polish. The live TV mike in New Delhi that enabled pool reporters to hear the President undiplomatically instructing Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to send a "cold and very blunt" note to Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about his nuclear policy. The dinner in the same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service...
...crowd at the center has vanished, to reconvene at a special session cheerfully entitled "Suggestions for Job Seekers" but full of depressing statistics. Of the 1,094 Ph.D.s created last year in English and 753 in languages, we learn only 42% and 46%, respectively, have landed steady teaching positions. "Ten years ago, anybody who didn't have a job by Jan. 15 would look in the mirror to see if he had leprosy," comments Jasper Neel, director of the M.L.A.'s English programs. "Now there won't be an upturn of Ph.D. hiring in this century...
...hope of finding later placement in the profession. At another session, titled "Should Half the Ph.D. Programs Be Abolished?" Speaker Fred Tarpley of East Texas State University remarks, "From what I hear in the corridors, most people would say yes." He advocates an early warning system to turn off English Ph.D. candidates before they are too deeply committed to a career in teaching...
Lawrence Grossman, president of the Public Broadcasting Service, talking about the importance to PBS of the BBC: "What would public television be if the British didn't speak English...
...much matter which language, either. Flann was comfortable in German, French and Latin, although his English prose style was most thoroughly affected by his knowledge of Gaelic. He regularly mocked those nationalists and bicycling anthropologists who made the preservation of Gaelic a sacred mission. In The Poor Mouth (1941) a long tale written in the old language, O'Brien shows a linguist from Dublin religiously transcribing the grunts of a western Irish pig. Flann even joked about the impulse that led him to learn his native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that...