Minor White observed a dialogue between East and West in Ishimoto's photographs, calling him a "visual
bilinguist." In this small, idiosyncratic survey, one could sense Ishimoto's American forebears and colleagues more than the influence of his Japanese upbringing.
The ideal
bilinguist switches from one language to another language according to the appropriate changes in the context (interlocutors, topics, etc.), but not in an unchanged situation and certainly not within a single sentence.
AMNESIA RIDDLE: Fresh ID appeal for
bilinguist; MYSTERY: Grassl
Henry's salvation, then, lies in the character of Katharine, French princess, integral political figure, and emerging
bilinguist, who provides Henry with the legitimacy his claim is heretofore without.
Now the company, which also supplies weather forecasts for Central TV, is on the lookout for a
bilinguist.
In 1994, Roger Ballard, director of the Centre for Applied South Asian Studies in the U.K., described young, second-generation British Asians, as "cultural navigators." He compared them to
bilinguists, where the speaker can switch languages with ease, depending on the context and audience.
The connections of the two hydrias extend broadly and to the most experimental contemporaneous painters, the
bilinguists. The main scenes of both hydrias link the painters to the forefront of iconographic change; aspects of style, identified above, reflect one painter's close association with the red-figure technique.