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...most citizens that complaint seems illiterate. To a linguist it is a good example of Black English, a dialect with its own grammar and vocabulary. For three centuries, it has been the language of most American Negroes, but until recently, both its origins and its rules have remained a mystery. Scholars once thought that it was either an ignorant misuse of Standard English or a remnant of archaic British dialects learned by slaves from their Southern masters. Lately, however, a number of linguists have come to believe that the dialect originated with the slaves themselves...
...chatted it up and laughed a lot, and then Prince Charles, 23, drove her back to Windsor Castle. Georgiana Russell is the name-the 24-year-old daughter of Sir John Russell, Britain's Ambassador to Spain, and Lady Russell, a former Greek beauty queen. Georgiana, a gifted linguist (French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian), lives in London and works for Vogue. The gossip columnists are overjoyed...
...Harvard Law School and a career diplomat, Freeman served in Taiwan and is now attached to the State Department's China section as a translator and analyst. He has scored near perfect grades in Chinese language examinations and is probably the department's most fluent Chinese linguist...
...Colonel Rudolf Abel, 68, head of a Soviet spy network in the U.S. between 1948 and 1957; of lung cancer; in Moscow. Though he was later to deny that espionage consists of "riproaring adventures [or] a string of tricks," Abel had his share of both. He was an accomplished linguist and a radio technician who posed as a photographer and amateur artist while leading his double life in Brooklyn. There he rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony documents...
...slothful and in search of a father figure, he says. Parents are#151;well-parental. (One frantic couple from Detroit beseeched Burgess to convince their son that he must relinquish his dream of becoming a poet and join the family business.) Burgess and his new young wife, a linguist named Liana, sublet sight unseen a tiny faculty apartment from a large Chinese family, which left them a vast quantity of chopsticks but no flatware-and little place to write...