Fusing a mixture of languages, song, dance and physical theatre, this casserole of a story should be rich and meaty.
He grew up in New York speaking a mixture of languages -- including Moseldeutsch, the dialect from his parents' childhood region, North Rhein-Westphalia -- and took questions at his lecture in his mother's tongue.
Marco Polo used a mixture of languages to describe his travels, probably without realising that many of them were "foreign".It was the widespread use of the printing press that changed all that.
"When I went back to Zim I became really attuned to the way people talk, in a mixture of languages and slang," she said in a recent session at the Edinburgh international book festival, quoting Nigeria's Chinua Achebe: "Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard-of things with it".
This approach was inspired by the fact that the data to be aligned could have a mixture of languages.
As a matter of practice, we use a language to state the properties, and in informal mathematics, this is a mixture of natural language and special mathematical language.
However, even detailed and precise proofs are rarely expressed purely in the language of logic; rather, they are a mixture of ordinary language, mathematical, and logical symbols and terminology.
One of the most impressive scenes featured the apes discussing their approach to the newly arrived humans, using a mixture of sign language and English.
Nigeria's Fela Kuti achieved international notice as a result of his provocative lifestyle, which helped to bring attention to his Afro-beat style, in which he chanted messages of defiance and advice in a mixture of local language (Yoruba) and pidgin English to the accompaniment of hypnotic arrangements inspired by James Brown, American pioneer of funk and soul music.
