Modern linguistics studies are structural rather than 
literary, and owe much to the new possibilities of computers for 
translation. As soon as an entire language is examined as a 
unified system, strange pockets appear. Looking at the usage 
scale of English, Martin Joos has wittily designated “five clocks 
of style,” or five different zones and independent cultural 
climates. Only one of these zones is the area of responsibility. 
This is the zone of homogeneity and uniformity that ink-browed 
Gutenberg rules as his domain. It is the style-zone of Standard 
English pervaded by Central Standard Time, and within this 
zone the dwellers, as it were, may show varying degrees of 
punctuality.

     Edward T. Hall in The Silent Language  discusses how 
“Time Talks: American Accents,” contrasting our time-sense 
with that of the Hopi Indians. Time for them is not a uniform