Some students in Donovan's classes are able to speak, master vocabulary, socialize and walk, and others appear to attend to even less than he does, engaging in near-constant self-stimulating behaviors, like repetitive jaw chomping, collapsing to the floor during class or reciting many times an hour descending notes that resemble a sad bird call.
For instance, according to the French creolist Robert Chaudenson, plantation communities were preceded by homesteads on which approximations of the colonial varieties of European languages, rather than pidgins, were spoken by masters, servants, and slaves alike.
And that's reckoning without his vibrant online presence: the Twitterbots and avatars which speak their master's voice to the world.
But anyone who has read certain Farrell interviews or has heard her speaking in master classes will know that she can be more insightful and wittier than this.
Most of Snapchat's interface is obscured and requires knowing the right taps and swipes to get around, even to add a friend, and it's notoriously hard for people over the age of thirty — "olds," in Internet speak — to master.
With the encouragement and support of his superior, Allesandro Valignano, Ricci revolutionized the Jesuit approach by mastering spoken and written Chinese — original editions of the books he wrote in Chinese are on display — assuming the Chinese name Li Madou, by which he remains widely known in China, and generally adapting himself to local customs.
Finally we see the "multidimensional chess master" spoken about, of yore.
To be sure, these words of wisdom were spoken not by master guitarist Andrés Segovia, but by Mauricio Segovia, principal of Darwin Elementary School in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
He was speaking English, mastering Nintendo and calling Dr. Zlotolow Dad.
"Judge, I hope you'll understand how slow I speak," Mr. Masters recalled Mr. Bartley saying.
