Word: lingua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sherover, director of the Lingua-phone Institute, decided that St. Louis women have the country's sexiest voices. He explained that they speak with "river bottom throb...
...delegates called Cambodians "French puppets" and drew a retort from Her Highness You Pan Tror, a stocky, swarthy Princess, that Cambodia would have nothing to do with Viet Nam. Princess You also quarreled loudly with her interpreter (the conference's many voices were translated into Asia's lingua franca-English...
...thing, communicating their meaning imperfectly, and in short often didn't know what the hell they were talking about. Ogden and Richards were then able to carry through that admirable work of distillation called Basic, and to explore its possibilities as a weapon against illiteracy, and as a new lingua franca. "Every time the Powers meet, the need for a universal language is emphasized," Professor Richards points...
This hodgepodge of Basic English, pid gin French and Southern drawl, punctuated by flyers' gestures, is the lingua franca in use at a U.S. Army school for French Army aviation cadets. Before they arrived at Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, S.C., the French trainees, fresh from service abroad, were taught 40 hours of Basic English. Meanwhile the field's American instructors were given a short course in French. But when the two groups met in the pressing routine of learning to fly, rote-learned vocabularies vanished in the propwash...
Latin is no dead language to the Roman Catholic Church. In Latin of sorts its services are held, its official business transacted. For its priests, seminarians, missionaries, the Church's nonclassical Latin is lingua franca. And, since the Popes' encyclicals are issued in Latin, its literature is still growing. But few lay Catholics know enough Latin to understand the words of the Mass. Last week was published a book (Your Catholic Language-Sheed & Ward-$2) which aims to teach Catholics Latin...