Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether U.S. comic strips are a menace to children is an old and vexing question to conscientious parents. This week came a partial answer...
George E. Hill, professor of Education, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, diligently studied the language of 16 different daily newspaper comics (384 strips altogether) for a month. He did not study comic magazines, nor did he concern himself with the activities of comic-strip characters. He was interested solely in finding out how comics might influence a child's vocabulary. He found that...
...different words were used in the strips studied. Nearly 80% of them simple primary-school words. Only slightly more than 5% were slang, misspelled or onomatopoeic words (in comic magazines the proportion is some...
...Comic-strip artists use word distortions for definite purposes - for humor, to indicate common slurrings, to convey the sound of a dialect. Examples (from Smilin' Jack and Popeye): a-gettin' , ah'm, aihport, fergit, yam (for am), ast, certingly, goner (for going...
Invisibly Different. Remodeling the Atlanta Journal, he reduced the size of margins at the top and bottom of pages, saving four column-inches per page. He cut comic strip widths, reduced the size of standing headlines over regular features, eliminated white space around classified ad items, made other space-saving reductions. As a result, the Journal now prints in 28 to 30 pages what once filled 32, and is cleaner, smarter appearing. Best thing about the Journal job, Farrar says: it was accomplished invisibly. Readers were not irritated by a drastic difference...