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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