Word: fang
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...guys in the foxholes gag about everything, but they do it for G.I. ears. . . . After all, you don't get fang marks in a rabbit warren...
Yale Sweater. He had four weeks before sailing. He went back to Yale, sweated for two days over the structure of the Chinese language, got it down to ele ments that could be written on a small sheet of paper. Next Hockett listened to two Chinese civilian assistants, Fang and Chew Hong, talk Chinese for three and a half weeks. The simplest and clearest remarks were cut on wax. Then Hockett, Fang, Hong and the officers sailed for China with lesson books, a few records, some hand-wind phonographs...
...officers got morning and afternoon classes. Fang and Hong made Chinese noises in front of the classes ; Hockett told the officers how to adjust their vocal equipment to reproduce the noises, ex plained meanings, corrected errors...
...officers drilled another two hours daily with phonographs in place of Fang and Hong...
Hoclcett on Paper. When Hockett got back to Washington he and Fang were assigned to produce a book which would do the job they had done on the pioneering voyage. Spoken Chinese is one of the Army's 23 basic language manuals.* It teaches 750 words and Hockett thinks they can be learned in a month by drilling with the book and listening to the records. The disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most...