Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be able to topple Begin's government. Said Peres: "Peace comes before power, and I would prefer to see a peace with mistakes rather than the removal of a government that I do not consider the right government." Once endorsed by the Knesset, the treaty, in its English version (which is the authoritative one), will probably be signed in Washington by Carter, Begin and Sadat, perhaps as early as next Monday...
Beginning this week, TIME will adopt the Pinyin (Chinese for phonetic spelling) system of transcribing Chinese names of people and places into English. Earlier this year, Peking officially changed to Pinyin spellings in its foreign-language publications; U.S. Government agencies, as well as many newspapers, magazines and news services in America, Europe and Australia have subsequently decided to follow suit...
...reason that so many are willing is that for many mainlanders the gloss has gone off some once fashionable Caribbean and Mexican resorts. The dollar is worth a dollar, almost. The natives speak English, sort of. It is a fairly easy hop for U.S. Westerners, who account for 80% of Maui's visitors (though 600 people a day flew from New York City en route to Maui on United alone last year). Though here and there a McDonald's, a Pizza Hut, a Baskin-Robbins has sprouted, it is still possible on Maui to rediscover the idyllic Hawaii...
...resort-condo centers is Hana, edging the rain forest on the east coast. It was from Hana's shores in 1778 that King Kamehameha the Great glimpsed the first of the tall ships that were to impose Western so-called civilization on Hawaii; the ship's English captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana...
...thrashing out Hanta Yo, or what was to become Hanta Yo. According to her collaborator Chunksa Yuha, a full-blooded Sioux, she read over 1200 ethnographies and wrote over 2000 pages. Beginning in 1967 the two translated all 2000 pages into pre-reservation Mahto only to retranslate back into English. They wanted to transmit the style and flavor of the ancient language as much as they wanted to depict the Mahto culture. They succeeded. Not only is Hanta Yo the best researched noyel yet written about an American Indian tribe, but it is also written in a unique style...