The local dialect, Triestine, is a hodgepodge of Italian and various imported languages.
We import words from other languages that are hard for English-speakers to pronounce.
But Zola, in a novel like "L'Assommoir," sticks close to individual lives and experiences, without importing the language of specialists.
In importing film language from white teen movies, Famuyiwa also imports the tropes that make those movies frustrating to begin with.
While the Rights of Woman argued that women should be "useful" and "productive", importing the language of the market into the home, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark adopts the values of the domestic space for the larger social and political world.
Arab-Israeli publisher Salah Abassi told Israeli public radio on Monday that authorities ordered him to stop importing Arabic-language children's books from the two longtime foes of Israel.
"Many translations import misogynistic language when it isn't there in the Greek," she wrote.
CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) is a state funded and state run program which imports French language teachers for school children.
Maybe someone can explain this: Israel imposes a law drawn up by the British in 1939, before the state was created, to block the importing of Arabic-language children's books from Syria and Lebanon.
Their target is words written in katakana, a script largely reserved for writing the exploding number of trendy words imported from Western languages, especially English -- even though Japanese has been borrowing Western words, changing their pronunciation and giving them a Japanese flavor, at least since the 19th century.
