Now people can see that, as well as being an experienced scientist, I am also a competent translator in both language directions.
And in both that article and her recent one in The Wall Street Journal, she used the quote "There's an ant on your southeast leg" to describe an aboriginal Australian people's distinctive language for direction.
This presented Liff with the unique challenge, yet incredible creative opportunity, to choreograph sign language, alongside direction by Michael Arden, and was met with rave reviews.
No more fumbling for paper maps; no more (or not much) querying passers-by who might anyway speak a different language for directions.
But I was in Italy and so I studied my Italian phrase book and tried to speak a little of the language, asking directions and even getting my gas tank filled.
In SLIC, we found borderline association for ATP2C2 with measures of receptive language (oral directions [p = 0.006], word classes [p = 0.04], and comprehension [p = 0.03]), expressive language (formulating sentences [p = 0.04]), and vocabulary (p = 0.04).
The tendency toward analytic expression is noticeable in everyday Russian speech, but the drift of the Slavic languages in that direction (as in the development of the western European languages) has been held back by the stabilization of the language resulting from mass communication and education.
Ms. Coppola's penchant for realism extends to costumes and scenery as well as language and stage direction.
The Socialist government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero now needs to demonstrate a willingness to examine closely the language, strategy and direction being taken by Abertzale Left – and to respond positively.
"The Voyage That Never Ends," as the volume is called, shows Lowry's extraordinary imagination and his ability to pull the English language in whatever direction he wanted to go.
