Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressman George Hansen is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and .025 mm thick. He is a piece of video tape, an electronic actor raised to global status through a system gone...
...high priests of television could do something. They could cut down his tape and his air time. Starting with a few lines on the networks on Nov. 22, Hansen grew bigger and bigger through the next days. The TV drama took on a life of its own. One wonders whether, if Walter Cronkite had ignored him, Hansen would even have been allowed into the besieged embassy. He was, however, and that was a spectacle of sorts, but not as big as what came through the tube. By last week Hansen was more than electronic news-he was entertainment...
...bright for schooling designed for the mentally retarded. Shy and uncommunicative when first tested at the language clinic, the two little girls would rush into the hallway to compare notes after each session. Their talk, Clinic Director Chris Hagen told TIME Correspondent James Willworth, sounded "as if a tape recorder were turned on fast forward with an occasional understandable word jumping...
...unintelligible. The hospital decided to video-tape therapy sessions so linguists and speech pathologists could first slow it down, then analyze at leisure the relationship between obvious garbles like "pintu" (pencil), "nieps" (knife) and "ho-ahks" (orange) and real-life objects they apparently represented. Meier and Newport began laborious phonetic transcriptions to break the twins' dialogue down to traceable parts...
...twins' private communication has turned out to be something less than a true invented language. Linguists Meier and Newport now call Gracie and Ginny's speech "deformed English." What had seemed to be a vocabulary of hundreds of new words, when slowed down and analyzed on tape recordings proved to be about 50 complex mispronounced words and phrases jammed together and said at high speed. There was also "substantial variation" every time the twins talked. Phonetic transcripts initially brought run-together phrases like "pink-telephone" and "let's-go-marketing" to the surface, and they finally traced...