Word: dialectic
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Nearly all of her songs are her own original compositions. But every one has the authentic ring of the Negro's own pulsing musical dialect. When the late James Weldon Johnson heard her sing several years ago, he was astounded. "I never believed," he remarked while tears ran down his cheeks, "that a white woman could tell it like that...
...believes in teaching individuals, or very small groups (adults hate to look foolish), and starts with syllables, not words -(most languages, unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach began teaching their dialect (Maranaw) to the Moslem Moros of Mindanao by joshing them into memorizing the appearance of ma, then pointing to the chart where mama occurs. When the Moro says mama, he has read the Maranaw for man. After as little as half an hour, a bright Moro can stumble through...
...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...
...year history the American Bible Society has issued a third of a billion Bibles or portions of the Scriptures. They have gone to over 50 countries, been printed in more than 200 languages or dialects. New last year: an edition in Papiamento, Spanish dialect for Curaçao; in Gbéa for French Equatorial Africa; in Kijita for Tanganyika...
...their husbands, "You can't call Spain a handful of fanatical idealists. A whole people is fighting at bay for its freedom and its life. And millions the world over are with them, and one-sixth of the earth aids them. . . ." That official dialect, with which this book is crammed, is no light matter. It betrays in intricate detail the tone deafness to human meanings and values which is perhaps the greatest handicap of most would-be liberators...