Even more cringe-producing, Nixon's African-American characters, though sympathetic, often speak a kind of Uncle Tom dialect.
When I was 16, I was sitting as the only black kid in my class, and I had grown up speaking a kind of a dialect.
"The management adoption of wellbeing and happiness – on the one hand it's speaking a kind of ethical language," he said.
Sometimes jurors are so different that they end up speaking a kind of esperanto to each other, and there may have been a bit of horse-trading going on.
Brad Goreski, the 33-year-old Canadian employed by the Hollywood stylist Rachel Zoe as her style director, speaks a kind of fashion patois so insider-y it might warrant its own Berlitz guide.
"One thing that makes him mix and match so easily is that he speaks a kind of shorthand that everbody gets," said Helen Schifter, a former fashion writer for Vogue.
It is only when age, madness, or illness takes possession of us when we are already, in a sense, outcast from society— that we can speak a kind of truth about our self-interest.
The result is that for someone who spends a lot of time attacking Washington politicos, McCain comes across as the ultimate Washington insider, since he's speaking a kind of private language that only insiders are familiar with.
Even after having lived there for 25 years, she continues to be something of an outsider, partly because of her accent — "I speak a kind of Hapsburg language," she said — and outlook, but also because of her unusual style and vocabulary, full of invented portmanteau words.
And speaking a kind word to anyone, even a stranger, can be a powerful thing.
