Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man, Joseph Retinger knew his great compatriot Theodor Joseph Konrad Korzeniowski intimately, especially from 1909 to the outbreak of World War I. Now a member of the Polish Government in London, Retinger writes of those days in the sharp, graceful dialect of an old-fashioned boulevardier of letters. His book is illustrated by the brilliant Polish draftsman Feliks Topolski (TIME, Jan. 4). All of which makes for no mean addition to Conradiana...
...answer: There is a Chinese way and an American way. In American, it is chee-ang. In Mandarin, now the official dialect of China, it is approximately John with...
...defense, firewatching, visits to the symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
...didn't you tell me you could sing?" demanded Director Ratoff in his unreproduceable dialect...
...Bulu dialect of the African Bantu language can be drummed almost as well as spoken. Reason: it is even more a language of tones than official Chinese. Where the Chinese use four tones, the Bulus have five-two high, two low and one in the middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum...