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Hayakawa
[hah-yuh-kah-wuh]
noun
S(amuel) I(chiye) 1906–92, U.S. semanticist, educator, and politician, born in Canada: senator 1977–83.
Sessue 1889–1973, Japanese film actor.
Example Sentences
Hayakawa, one of Proposition 38’s co-authors, was preparing for Proposition 63, which would enshrine English as the state’s official language, after Whittier-area Assemblymember Frank Hill introduced a bill proposing just that.
The official argument for Proposition 63, co-signed by Hayakawa, proclaimed that the state was moving toward “language rivalries and ethnic distrust” and that declaring English as the official language would help residents “respect other people, other cultures, with sympathy and understanding.”
We were Hayakawa’s Babelish prediction personified.
Our growing embrace of English — one part classroom instruction but mostly marathon Saturday morning cartoon sessions for the kids and Charles Bronson movies for my parents — wasn’t the only thing Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about.
In 1983, Tanton and Hayakawa — born in Canada to Japanese immigrants — formed U.S.
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