THERE was something familiar in the language that President Bush used in his State of the Union speech Tuesday when he asked Americans to stay with him through the journey that began on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
This type of curriculum genre is very familiar in infant language learning across cultures, that we may call the 'pointing and naming game'.
Its sentiments, however familiar, were expressed in language that was consistently fresh, at once elevated and unpretentious, and almost entirely free of bombast, cliché, or sloganeering.
Jews are still here If Moses embarked from a plane in Tel Aviv he would be greeted in his familiar language in the Promised Land".
But in recent weeks, even as the final deal was beginning to fall into place, the plan generated acrimonious debate in language familiar in Yonkers.
They argue that their party must speak in language familiar to, among others, the disaffected hog farmers of Missouri.
As to the plummeting price of Yukos's stock, he commented in language familiar to Western shareholders, and far less blunt than a typical Russian executive's.
Strategies for improving compliance include giving clear, concise, and logical instructions in familiar language, adapting drug regimens to daily routines, eliciting patient participation through self-monitoring, and providing educational materials that promote overall good health in connection with medical treatment.
But if you show them what other people do, in their familiar language and their familiar space, it has a much bigger impact.
And given the intellectual nature of the work, and the brain pool that it will house, it deserves to be called, in familiar Silicon Valley language, a "campus".
