“General Otis” borrowed from military vocabulary to call his L.A. mansion “the Bivouac” and his Times staff “the phalanx” as he built, and lorded over, a new Southland.

The outbreak of the current war in Gaza has accelerated the shift in the vocabulary of the international legal community and human rights groups.

Officials and leaders from both sides of the political aisle have learned to deploy a familiar vocabulary when describing our region.

I learned Portuguese along the way, I learned different vocabulary.

It’s a distillation of the movement and gestural material seen throughout the work, its “vocabulary,” Liska said.