The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.

I flung over my box and he asked if I wanted a swally of the South African wine bottle he held up before me.

True, he had stopped at Langston Bucket by chance, and there was no reason why Mr. Boke should theorise as to his thereabouts.

Being indoctrinised into a womanhood of putting up with things and men that would not listen to a woman .....was not a womanhood at all ...... it had merely forced me to accept a man with a Brain Injury and make a living at the same time.