Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill has advocated Basic English for international communication (TIME, Sept. 20). Last week a scholarly U.S. corporal's guard attacked Basic and defended the King's English against the King's Prime Minister. At a Manhattan meeting of the American Dialect Society, Corporal Allen Walker Read was among those protesting the "high power promotion" of Basic. Some of their points...
Viscountess Astor accepted a challenge at a U.S. Army camp in Britain, told a bunch of dialect stories to the troops, presently struggled away with a prize...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
...father was secretary of the trustees, did yeoman work in coaxing $600,000 out of the late John D. Rockefeller to start the university in 1891. They also wearied of his continual feuding with Professor Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, who held that the Gospels were written in an Aramaic dialect of Jesus' time, and were later translated into Greek. Goodspeed maintains they were originally written in Greek. One of Goodspeed's greatest thrills came in 1927 when he found a rare 13th-century New Testament manuscript in a Parisian antique shop. He got the late rich Mrs. Edith...
...believes in teaching individuals, or very small groups (adults hate to look foolish), and starts with syllables, not words -(most languages, unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach began teaching their dialect (Maranaw) to the Moslem Moros of Mindanao by joshing them into memorizing the appearance of ma, then pointing to the chart where mama occurs. When the Moro says mama, he has read the Maranaw for man. After as little as half an hour, a bright Moro can stumble through...