We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North Amer...
I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.
When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.
When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!
Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San ...
After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.
It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
