And, in response to a question from William Safire, the language authority and New York Times columnist, about choice in matters of privacy, Mr. Gore replied: "Along with roughly 270 million other Americans, I use words more carelessly than Bill Safire, and in choosing the word 'choose,' I did not inform myself of the deeper, more subtle meanings, which I can now see clearly".
One of those units is the Fourth Stryker Brigade, based at Fort Lewis, in Washington State, which established an intensive 10-month Arabic course for 125 of its soldiers to attend before their next deployment, said Gail H. McGinn, senior language authority at the Department of Defense.
Job Description: As the Air Force's senior language authority, lead the planning, direction and evaluation of culture, region and language expertise programs.
The centers largely fly below the radar of English-language authorities — they advertise online or in Chinese-language publications.
I considered investing in one, giddy at the thought of how beautiful it would look in the kitchen, but then I read Paula Wolfert, perhaps the foremost English-language authority on Moroccan cooking, say that "the shallow bottom is most important for braising meat for a 'tagine' … You use less liquid than in a deep casserole and the sauce emerges intense in texture and flavour".
Force becomes the language of authority, and authority is sustained by force.
Language examination authorities and language testers have so far attempted to align examinations to the CEFR or design tests or self-assessment instruments based on the CEFR scale (e.g., DIALANG, see http://www.dialang.org; see also Khalifa and Ffrench 2008; Huhta et al. 2002; North 2002).
So, even though she had lived in the U.S. nearly all her life, had given birth to three children on our nation's soil, had never as much as visited Korea and didn't speak the language, federal authorities wanted to send her "back".
The council in Southwark, part of south London, offers translation into 70 languages; the authorities in Crawley, near England's south coast, spent £600 translating a lifestyle magazine into Urdu at the request of one citizen.
