Word: dialect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout it all, the linguistic battle lines between the Mandarin-speaking refugees from the north and the laughing, dark-skinned Cantonese drew tighter and tighter. The northerners aloofly refused to attempt the Cantonese dialect and its eight singing tones (Mandarin has only four). They snootily reminded their hosts that Canton and Kwangtung Province had been declared a barbarous territory as recently...
Died. Roark Bradford, 52, Tennessee-born author (Ol' Man Adams an' His Chillun' was dramatized as The Green Pastures) who specialized in Negro dialect stories; of amoebiasis (contracted in World War II); in New Orleans...
...sense, every newspaperman is bilingual. He speaks one language and often writes a quite different one. The dialect he writes is dictated by his paper's "style-book." As papers, like people, are crusty with peculiarities, the regional variations of this newspaper lingo have to be learned by the men who write it. Except on chains, no two papers' rules are ever quite the same...
...year. British inspectors who had seen them at work found that few of them had ever read a book outside school, knew little about teaching a course, could barely spell themselves. The islanders were fast forgetting their English, and were slipping into a droning dialect all their...
...those "stark" dramas about people very close to nature, in which strong men snarl at each other over a morsel of feminine flotsam (Patricia Roc), primitive passions are stripped to their G-strings, simple folk lap up their liquor as avidly as so many intellectuals, and the dialect is as hard to get through as a barbed-wire entanglement...