Word: dialectic
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...Swahili word for copper, the source of the province's and the country's wealth), and the Stanley Pool -the Kinshasa harbor area named for Journalist-Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley-will be referred to as the Malebo Pool (palm tree, in one Zaïre dialect). Elisabethville had already been renamed Lubumbashi and Stanleyville had been changed to Kisangani. Now, even street names like Avenue Charles de Gaulle will have to go, says Mobutu, "despite the admiration we have for this illustrious Frenchman...
...term "Hillbilly" is an Americanism, dating from somewhere around the early 1900's. It may derive from two Scottish colloquialisms, "hill-folk," and "billie," the former used pejoratively, designating a rebel against Charles II, the latter used in Scots dialect as a synonym for "fellow" or "comrade...
...academic and administrative circles. Lerner's article, "Respectable Bigotry", shows how academic liberals serenely espouse a double standard; empathizing with blacks and proud of their own lack of racism, their understanding seems to disappear as they sneer at police and factory workers as 'fascist pigs' and 'ethnics'. Black dialect is 'cool', while white ethnics are inarticulate fools...
Mary's parents were firmly upper-class. In Venice they forced her to put on white gloves, to act the role of the young aristocrat, and to speak Italian instead of her German dialect. Life with the indulgent poet and the aloof, implacable violinist was made out of what her village parents would consider frivolity. In the village farmhouse there had been only two books: The Life of Christ and The Lives of the Saints. At the center of Pound's villa library in Venice, among all the books in all the many languages, there was huge, wood-bound Ovid...
...punishes unseemly conduct by destroying a man's wisdom, money or children. Business picked up later, however, and in Madras alone 150 drunks had been arrested by nightfall. That pointed up another worry. Too much tippling could wreck the state's principal industry: movies in the Tamil dialect. Since no one else understands them. Tamil movies are shown over and over to local viewers, who are often so taken with the actors, plot or music that they come back a third or fourth time. The problem now is, will the movie audiences remain as faithful when they have...