Word: dialectical
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...manifold departments and courses and degrees retain no common courses in any way related to the history of the race they will graduate men and women who will have nothing in common but their clothes. They will not even talk the same tongue, though they may all speak a dialect of one language. They will be free and unrestrained individuals. And they will have no ancestors whatever...
...American Language" was published by Henry Louis Mencken, giving a host of slang terms that have come into use in this country. But it is to the advantage of everyone from American cabdriver to British cockney, that the two countries should speak the same language, differing in dialect as little as possible; and with this end in view a committee of scholars from the two nations has been brought together...
...impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces of fiction included in this issue because of the dexterity with which it is used. Mr. Behn produces the virtual effect of dialect, in his "Translation from the Navajo", by a well...
Monday night saw the opening of a well balanced hot weather bill at Keith's with two comedy headliners furnishing ample amusement for a holiday audience. Lillian Shaw was excellent in her Shavian character studies. Her East Side dialect was something to hear, and hear again, and her listeners showed their appreciation of her cleverness. If she is ever out of a job, she should have no trouble in getting work with Potash and Perlmutter after her first cheerful "Helloy...
...wish that "all the potatoes on Christendom be magically transformed" as suggested by his namesake, Mr. Boobie. Nor could he nor his admirers take offense at this delicate demonstration of the pathetic fallacy. "Sketches in Pleasant Russia" is more in the undergraduate vein of burlesque, but the dialogue and dialect are good. "Prison Cruelty" is well named, such things should be avoided even in the Atlantic. And the dullness of the portraits of American Women is emphasized rather than enlivened, although its style is admittedly well executed...