Word: dialectic
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...almost dark in the gambling house by the bridge, but a fantan game is going on. Chinese and Nungs (residents of Moncay region, born in Indo-China but of Chinese origin and speaking the Cantonese dialect) are putting their piasters on what they think is the winning number. Little shops are open, too. Come what may, these people are not going to Haiphong. If the French pull out and the Communists move in, they expect to keep on doing business...
Gregory Ratoff, Hollywood dialect comedian-turned-director, got nowhere when he tried to buy T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. Informed of Ratoff's intent, Eliot said: "I've been dreading this for a long time. I do not want The Cocktail Party made into a film...
...well-muscled people with broad faces and flat noses. Most Formosans still live in the straw-thatched huts which are the homes of South China's peasants or in the two-story brick houses which are the homes of South China's gentry. Formosans speak a Fukienese dialect, and few can talk to mainland Chinese without an interpreter...
...representative citizens-a few small landowners, many tenants, a few barrio lieutenants or deputy mayors-have come to the town hall to hear speeches by officers of the 5th battalion combat team. The battalion surgeon, a young major who grew up near Bamban, is speaking in Pampango, the liquid dialect of Pampanga and Tarlac provinces. I almost never hear the word "Hukbalahap." Speakers use euphemisms for the Huks-"The New Faces," "The Mistaken People" or "Our Friends Outside...
Pretti clucked sympathetically and went on to the sleek Barca d'Oro, an expensive restaurant. In these elegant surroundings Pretti smiled and bowed politely, but in the dimly lit workers' restaurant in the Via del Gesù he shifted to an easy manner and a broad Milanese dialect. He explained: "I must put myself in harmony with the environment...