Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best it is" thick with good eccentrics, good phrases, good stories...