Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk of the stock exchange and of the turf, which significantly share such terms as "sleeper," "tip sheet" and "past performance...
...summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...
...your growing dialect the complete color scheme of the 2,378 negroes of Rowanty township, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, as used by the heads of their families [and noted by me] in earning my master's degree in 1878? . . . Here they...
This, the 1941 Harper Prize ($10,000) novel, is a problem book about marriage among U.S. upper-middle class, eastern-seaboard, Smith-or-Vassar bred, young housewives. It is written in their official dialect, by one of them. For the rest of them, it will probably be the novel of the season...
...detachment and weakness for sermonizing turn what might have been a study of modern marriage into a sort of book of marital etiquette. Like any etiquette book, it will repel many readers who travel in a different set from the author's, or who speak a different dialect...