Her legalistic answers were reminiscent of her husband's infamously careful parsing of language when he was accused of infidelity.
Profoundly deaf and autistic, he refused to learn language when he was sent away to school, yet he was resourcefully, voraciously creative.
Kunene began writing in the Zulu language when he was still a child and by age 11 had published a number of his poems in newspapers and magazines.
Mr. Wilson, the 24-year-old gang member, said he regretted not learning the Sioux language when he was young and now wondered about his own future.
He came up to my office and pitched a story about how he put his three Brooklyn-bred kids in a Russian school, even though they didn't speak the language, when he was sent to Moscow as a correspondent for The Times.
At a fairly large meeting gathered for the final decision, he opened by asking: "Where's the language?" When he was told that the anti-Israeli language had not changed, the secretary said he would not be attending, a senior official said.
The statement continued, saying that the actor "became disorderly, using profanities and vulgar language, when he wasn't given a cigarette".
Douglas Ridloff started composing poetry in American Sign Language when he was a teenager, after a well-known ASL poet named Peter Cook visited his high school.
Barkley, who communicates in body language when he isn't talking out loud, extended his arms, palms up, in bewilderment.
Sam Worthington as Jake Sully must learn the language when he is projected into alien form to go undercover on Pandora.
