In my opinion, language bubbles are quite powerful barriers in most non-European countries.
An extract from Word Monday [translated by Karen Van Dyck]: Boiling water, always boiling water Learning that what is scarce is what takes charge Learning how Π and T lose their flat roofs How ζ and ξ dry up at the roots How vowels get murdered How language bubbles up An offering of the silent For those who grew silent How do you define your poetry?
Grossman said of his sons, "This is how they were — in a world they shared, with their own language, a bubble that no one could penetrate".
"We call our design language 'double bubble,' " said Mr. Laituri, who came to Polaroid in 1998 from Lunar Design, where he helped shape home computers for Hewlett-Packard.
In one image passed around on Facebook by Israelis on Wednesday, with Hebrew-language dialogue added in speech bubbles to photographs of the two leaders, the imagined exchange between the two men went like this: Mr. Obama: "Benjamin, what's up?
The "bubble" language spoken by her characters is the vulgate of modern America, and she illustrates her life's most private moments, including some that most people wouldn't want to share — sitting on a toilet with her pants down, performing cunnilingus, masturbating — with what feels, at times, like the gleeful exhibitionism of a streaker.
(Again, the colonial language is always bubbling just under the surface).
As the loans were sold from one entity to another during the bubble, contractual language was written that allowed the buyer to force the seller to repurchase the loan under certain conditions.
He heard harsh mouthfuls of words with deep notes — it was not a mellifluous language like the bright bubbling of water over rocks of his language.
