Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...
...Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a professor of art at Tokyo University of Art and Design: "In the wake of World War II, we learned American culture through the designs of goods at PX's -- by way of lamps, shoes, clothing -- not through the English language." And often they learned the banal dialect of mass-market American design...
...last part of Ishtar returns to the funny, fast pace of the early scenes in New York. There's a great gag having to do with a blind camel and a scene in which Hoffman pretends to speak a Berber dialect is hysterical...
...however, is Lydia Bruce's key performance as Bessie. Her Machiavellian machinations to keep her family in line seem to have no motivation other than sheer perfidy, and when she does try to explain herself all she does is whine. One problem right off the bat is the Jewish dialect which seems like an alien tongue to most of the actors, as they try to wrap their mouths around convoluted phrases like "So bad I never imagined you could be!" One small complaint, only for purists, is that there is not one single Yiddish word uttered in the course...
...danger of losing the power of communication if the "deterioration" of American English is allowed to continue. Obviously, if the majority of the people are speaking in a certain way, they will have no trouble communicating among themselves, and little difficulty understanding those who persist in speaking the "prestige" dialect. After all, who but the most obtuse English-speaking American would not understand "I don't know where...