Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admittedly such efforts speak only to a special few. But his longer works also ask a great deal of the reader: wwww wwww waww wakw wake walw walk
...notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something, or someone, having to do with the village, which is one reason the village is so important in Vietnamese life...
...response to a question about the names of policemen he had consulted, DeGuglielmo said, "I spoke to the chief. I don't speak to subordinates...
...overriding logical gap in this weighty story is that the apes speak English: not only is it unlikely that our language should be preserved by another civilization millions of years into the future, it is inconceivable that an American space traveler should fail to wonder at this phenomenon on what he supposes to be an alien planet. But Heston expresses no amazement at his ability to communicate with his captors, and while screenwriters Rod Serling and Michael Wilson can rely on the existence of other movies in which interstellar strangers speak the same tongue, the flaw is no less glaring...
Albert Shanker, president of the New York City teacher's union and leader of this Fall's 14-day teacher's strike, will speak on "Teachers, Strikes, and the Ghetto" at 8:30 tonight in Rm. 18, 2 Divinity Avenue...