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...speak it, and it’s such a beautiful language. But perhaps I should say Japanese as well, because I have a lot of Japanese friends and when I travel in Japan I always have to run around with a translator. I’m not a great linguist...
...been thought of, unhelpfully, as a template for the present volume. The editors seem to be working under the assumption that anyone who would buy this book already owns the previous collection, and won't mind flipping through it to find what's been omitted. And Wilson the amateur linguist, who had a habit of sprinkling his letters with bits of Greek, Hebrew and Russian, would hardly have approved of the decision not to print his use of other languages in their original orthography. The editors are also not above a little politically correct editorializing in the footnotes, as witness...
...tenure has nothing to do with teaching skills, approachability or concern for undergrads, and Vaux would better serve his cause by focusing on his scholarship. He’s a well-respected linguist with a strong publishing record, and he need not make the standard appeals of the popular-but-undistinguished professor...
Despite Vaux’s achievements, however, Vaux says the linguistics department senior Faculty have decided that they don’t need a linguist of Vaux’s specialty. Vaux contends that phonology, his specialty, is essential to the development of linguistics as a whole, and that these same senior Faculty are not familiar enough with the subject to judge its importance...
...caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Her elegant life as the Chancellor's wife?she was also an accomplished cook and linguist?was afflicted by a devastating allergy to sunlight. She committed suicide. ARRESTED, ALFREDO ASTIZ, 50, in Buenos Aires. The "Blond Angel of Death" participated in the torture and murder of thousands of Argentinians during the 1976-83 military regime. Despite the severity of his crimes, Astiz was not prosecuted...