Further, do we want to say God is more the teller of the tale than I am when I
speak to you?
That, however, is not surprising, because Jeremiah and the psalmists
speak to God about all of their thoughts and experiences and bring forth both praise and lament.
And yet less than one in five took the time to
speak to the right people in the right way to try to exert influence over these decisions.
For instance, the Piraha have no way to say, "When I finish eating, I want to
speak to you." The closest corresponding expression best translates as "I finish eating.
Also, when it comes to foreign problems, many Japanese who never seem to
speak to each other become partners fast--when the foreigners are out of sight.
For some reason, the system could not interpret the phrase "
speak to a human being" well enough to transfer the caller to a live operator.
I felt that the book would be stronger and more authoritative if it included the expertise of a psychologist who could provide a clinical understanding of the costs of shifting; a black woman who could
speak to the emotional and cognitive processes that might be occurring when a black woman buys a pair of contact lenses, trading her brown eyes for blue, or when she goes from being a dynamic supervisor on the job to a docile homemaker at night, biting her tongue to make her husband feel empowered and affirmed.
Our students need to be looking in our eyes as we
speak to them, and we need to be looking more directly at them when they answer our questions.
* They are encouraged to
speak to the teacher and others in the class using the target language.
Among those language choices is the option to invoke (i.e., switch on) Black
Speak to clearly and concisely communicate a "truth" regarding the conundrum faced by African-descent peoples simultaneously immersed in the clashing tides of American cultures to another or others conversant in the vernacular form.
Regardless of their title, one day, someone will ask most officers to formally
speak to a group.
Though he cannot
speak to you with elegant words, he reveals to you the exquisite secret vision of his heart.
Writing letters to the editors of Vegetarian Journal or other magazines, promoting healthy school lunches, tabling for VRG at book and street fairs, and offering to
speak to local groups are other options.
Borrowing insights from contemporary speech-act theory leads to the conclusion that the Bible is the instrumentality of the Spirit in that the Spirit appropriates the biblical text so as to
speak to us today.
Note: It is ideal to
speak to people who all have the same level of knowledge, but this is seldom the case.
