Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bilingualism one most frequently encounters is "folk bilingualism"--associated with the working classes, thus undesirable and undervalued. Members of recent immigrant groups are induced to abandon their traditional languages in order to become "good Americans", while upper middle class high school juniors are sent off to Europe or to Latin America to acquire a second language...
Although Sandburg speaks fluent Italian, knows a number of regional Venetian and Alpine dialects, and can read Latin, Spanish, French and German, he says that certain aspects of fieldwork--especially communicating with natives and gaining their trust--can be extremely difficult...
...example, in a big project Sandburg's working on in northern Italy, he is gathering information from the archaeological record, Latin sources, ethnohistory from Roman times and information from local residents...
Sandburg has also led seminars for high-school teachers on teaching archaeology in high schools. Harvard's art museums have an outreach program with Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, and Sandburg lectured on archaeology, particularly on Sardis--a long-term excavation in Turkey for which he worked for a summer--in an effort to help the teachers incorporate archaeology into the 10th and 11th grade curriculum...
...Cambridge and Latin High School JV team is not a typical team. And Fanshen Cox, the squad's third-string wide receiver, is not a typical player...