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Samuel Stoney, Manhattan architect, native of Charleston, S. C., gave an accurate imitation of Gullah (early Negro) dialect: "Once deh bin ah nyung rat wat couldn't muk up eh mine. Whenebber duh turrah rat ax um ef e would like tuh come oudt widdum, e would muk ansuh, 'I dunno...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...
...them. But why? Their term is Tsoong Kok Nyung, which is, literally, Chinaman. And while in English they do not call us America-men, their term is Mei Kok Nyung which, again translated literally, is no more nor less than that. The pronunciation given is, of course, in Shanghai dialect, but the Mandarin pronunciation is not very different, and the meaning is exactly the same...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. So bland and calm was the satire of Author Anita Loos' famed opus, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, that, when translated into cinematic dialect, it seemed probable that only a faint echo of its hilarity would remain. Such is not the case. Ruth Taylor as the very arch criminal, Lorelei Lee, is so coy, and cogently appealing that it becomes easy to believe in her conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei...
...Woolly-haired, yellow-brownish-skinned South African aborigines. Dutch settlers called them Hottentots (jabberers) because of their clickety-click-click dialect...