Someone once described spoken Finnish to me as Hungarian heard through a closed door.
The Southern poet Eleanor Ross Taylor wrote poems that, as Adrienne Rich described, "speak of the underground life of women".
In "Making Rent," Harris describes speaking to Lee twice over the course of nearly a decade.
In the world unfolding at the courthouse, a parade of aging gangsters describe speaking into walkie-talkies.
The excellent title poem, a deceptively casual sonnet, acts as something of a tissue sample for most of the book's concerns, from the mutations of cells to the disruption of the seasons, in a voice as mutable as the phenomena it describes, speaking sympathetically in the year 2004 to those who "feel small among the numbers.
These questions become even more difficult to ignore when Thorpe describes speaking in a "standard, confident way," makes a joke about sitting like a man, after which he manspreads, and explains his own tendency to go up as he ends a sentence, by way of saying "I was never trained to be aggressive, to be authoritative".
Professor Carter said the purpose of developing a way of describing spoken language was to recognise that language operates within a context, and to help students identify how best to use language in different contexts.
Posted on social media, it immediately attracted comment for its derisive terms of faint praise: "Howe's thin new volume... took her ten years to write... .. Thring says, describing speaking to "...this Cambridge English don whose PhD, she says, was on 'visual imagination and visual vividness in language' is to undergo a tutorial sprinkled with wordy phrases..."...
Congenitally unable to say or do things in an expected, conventional way, Audiard is back in the Cannes competition with "Dheepan," a feature he accurately described, now speaking through a translator, as "a French film where people speak Tamil".
