Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit us to use only our teeth and fingernails for the observance." LoBagola's people speak "a dialect of Arabic, mixed a great deal with Hausa, Yoruba, and Benga vernacu-lars." They wear no clothes. Most of them have never seen a white...
STREET SCENE-Manhattan dialect tragedy...
...country in innumerable trunks. In 1924 they were made office managers of the company, took a Chicago apartment. For fun they obtained a radio tryout without pay. This led to regular engagements. First they sang songs, told stories; gradually they evolved their blackface manner. Gosden taught Correll the dialect; for a while they were known as Sam 'n' Henry. In March 1928, they first performed as Amos 'n' Andy...
Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, in his way, is a master of musical-comedy dialog, especially in the dialect of the stage Englishman of very high or low degree. Mr. Mulliner Speaking is a collection of his sprightly tales: the narrator in each case is the affably reminiscent Mr. Mulliner, who holds forth to his jaw-dropped cronies in the bar of the Angler's Rest. In every case the hero, or the goat, is some pinheaded nephew or vague cousin of Mr. Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they...
...graph: the product of X (frequency) times Y (conspicuousness) is some constant N. "We might fill in X and Y with their actual values," he says, "and solve the equation for N: we should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...