Word: linguistical
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...rake, Albert Prejcan, teaches her nothing which the Rover Boys did not known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided. If you're a good linguist and have the sort of imagination which reads vicious innuendo into the simplest "bon jour" or "mauvais unit," you may get a kick out of this picture; otherwise you might just as well try Harper's for light reading. By far the most interesting feature of the program...
...best minor diplomatic attributes: he is glacially distinguished, is one of the few U.S. men who can carry a stick with assurance, is a linguist of idiomatic excellence, never forgets names, never leaves so-necessary little things undone. He has a rich, resonant voice which he can inflect to an almost mathematical exactitude of tone...
Like his father, Negrin is an accomplished linguist, having studied in several European countries before coming to the United States. During the early part of the Spanish War he studied in Soviet Russia, where he was attached to the Spanish Embassy...
...engineer, his mother, a diplomat. Three years ago Dale entered Harvard. To please his mother, he concentrated on history the first year; second year, to please his father, he majored in chemistry. Third year, he pleased himself, concentrated on comparative philology-because he had always wanted to be a linguist...
...years ago goat-bearded, grey-haired H. (for Henry) Noyes McKay, itinerant instructor in sales psychology, fell ill, repaired to Berkeley, across the Bay from San Francisco, to recover his health. A linguist and lecturer, McKay amused himself during convalescence by studying the diction and grammar of newscasters and radio commentators...