Word: swahili
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...whether 'tis better to give or to receive linguistic torture. The treachery of the phrase book, as every neophyte soon discovers, is that you cannot begin to follow the answer to the question you've pronounced so beautifully -- and, worse still, your auditor now assumes you're fluent in Swahili. Yet sticking to English, it's easy to feel that you've never left home at all (and are guilty, to boot, of a Waugh-like linguistic imperialism...
Places for people to sleep are more important than safe havens for the transcripts of parliamentary speeches in Uganda. Certainly they are more important than storage for the German and Swahili translations of those records...
Tanzania is now getting tough. Since June 1, units of the police, army and wildlife department under Operation Uhai -- Swahili for life -- have arrested 1,840 people and seized more than 1,000 illicit tusks. Some frightened poachers dump their tusks into the Ruaha River rather than risk getting caught. But it is late for Tanzania's elephants. Between 1979 and 1987 their & population plummeted from about...
...with. During a twelve-year assignment, the 41-year-old priest built up a black parish from 200 to 2,000 families. Last year Hickey appointed him director of the archdiocese's evangelism program. Heedless of Hickey's stern warnings, Stallings is determined to celebrate Mass for his Imani (Swahili for faith) Temple, which will meet temporarily in a chapel at Howard University. How many of the archdiocese's 80,000 black parishioners will enlist in this self-made Catholicism? Jacqueline Wilson, who directs the Washington archdiocesan office for black Catholics, thinks "there are a lot who share his concern...
...jerry cans on the donkeys' backs got lighter. Toad the linguist asked Lutupen in Swahili, "Wapi maji?" (Where is water?) Then after finding a few dung-fouled cattle watering holes, he learned to be more precise: "Wapi maji mazuri?" (Where is good water?) At length they fell to quarreling over water and stopped speaking to one another for hours at a time...