Word: dialectic
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...cipher to most foreigners) despite being Japan's fourth largest city. When a new generation of bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka was introduced in 1992, the original schedules didn't even include a Nagoya stop. Two decades ago, a comedian named Tamori got laughs by mocking Nagoya's dialect, which he likened to cats' mewling...
...trip to the toy store-he took three bullets from a passing motorcyclist while standing outside a mobile-phone shop. He died half an hour later at the Cebu City Medical Center. A witness later testified that he overheard Dizon pleading with his assailant in the Cebuano dialect before he was shot: "Don't do it, we're neighbors...
...voices knows science and generic utopian Asia, Steven Spielberg and British misanthropy. His language crackles with texture and bite: "Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman" and "[the] sequined gaggle of mantled goslings streamed past me." Mitchell, with typical impenitence, even invents a whole new dialect ("A yarnin' is more delish with broke-de-mouth grinds") for a race in the future. The propulsive zing of his sentences and the unexpected U-turn of his narrative give added fuel to his repeated suggestion that time moves like a concertina, not an arrow...
...preferred the national stage to the neighborhood pub. "People here like talkers. You go to any bar in the city, and it's full of b.s. artists," says Joe Keohane, editor of the Weekly Dig, an alternative newspaper in Boston. "I don't think he ever mastered the political dialect." Many people say they voted for Kerry, but he took up little space in their hearts. They already have their hometown family, and its name for four decades has been Kennedy...
...Cosby is right that education is important and kids should master English - but they should also be taught that vernacular black culture has worth. Certainly Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote such vernacular classics as Their Eyes Were Watching God - understood that. "Zora chose to write in dialect because she thought the language of ordinary, rural, self-educated black folk was beautiful," Valerie Boyd, author of the Hurston biography Wrapped in Rainbows told me. "She thought this language - the language of her youth, her primary language as a storyteller - was poetic and rich and full of vivid imagery and worthy...