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8 White Sheet --A self-taught nightrider (James Cagney) seeks increased stature by literally dancing on the shoulders of his Jewish landlady (Judy Garland).
A renowned proponent of Mexican Spanish folklore in the Southwest and California was Charles F. Lummis (1859–1928), a self-taught photographer, ethnologist, musicologist, journalist, and the founder of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.
I cannot however be compared to Japanese schoolboys: I have never been to Japan, and I am self-taught; I can read and write Japanese (slowly) for I did learn both the Katakana and Hiragana syllabaries (47 signs each) as well as a few thousand Chinese characters.
The self-taught Sister is said to be charmingly enthusiastic, and to "awaken an appreciation for a sweeping spectrum of art ...
Yes, Oscar Hammerstein's lyric is full of "dat" and "dese" (obviously, he was self-taught at Ebonics), but funnily enough, when Paul Robeson sang the song in the London production of Show Boat in 1928, the biggest problem he had was wrapping his beautiful, impeccable vowels around the soi-disant dialect lyric.