Furthermore many massage therapists are not trained in charting language familiar to physicians, nor are they permitted to make "diagnoses".
Growing up, my best friend's parents were linguists, who disinterestedly charted her language acquisition as a toddler and then, with far more interest, her grammatical failures as a young adult.
By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn October 14, 2009 Growing up, my best friend's parents were linguists, who disinterestedly charted her language acquisition as a toddler and then, with far more interest, her grammatical failures as a young adult.
As she travels the globe, Challenger charts lost languages, skills and tribes, a melancholy litany of squandered diversity.
The chart below measures language diversity in two very different ways: the number of languages spoken in the country and Greenberg's diversity index, which scores countries on the probability that two citizens will share a mother tongue.
In America, it was the first non-English-language top-10 radio hit since "Macarena" in 1996 and is the highest charting Spanish- language single of all time.
Although Spain isn't the only erstwhile colonial power to have been thoroughly upstaged by its brash former charges when it comes to pop, the scale of Latin American domination of Spanish-language chart music outstrips even the US's hold over Britain.
In TALK TO THE SNAIL: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French (Bloomsbury, $14.95), available in January, Clarke intersperses jaunty chapters — "Thou Shalt Not Work: Why long weekends are good for the French economy"; Thou Shalt Be Polite (and simultaneously rude)" — with idiosyncratic language charts.
Chinese is only 10th on the list of targeted languages (chart below).
Last August, Hellerstein ruled that Shakira's Spanish-language chart topper, and another song by a Dominican rapper known as El Cata, illegally ripped off a recording by Ramon Arias Vasquez called "Loca con su Tiguere".
