Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Authentic Dialect. Just 50 miles from Tat Phnom last week, a squad of Thai cops, returning from patrol with two Communist prisoners, was ambushed on an ox trail and forced to dive for cover while the prisoners were permanently silenced by their comrades' bullets. Red terrorists also hit nearby Ubon, where U.S. fighter-bombers operating from that provincial capital mount almost daily strikes against North Viet Nam. In the past six months, Communist assassins have killed some 40 village headmen, teachers and "police informers" in the six Northeast provinces. With steadily growing intensity, armed bands of guerrillas shoot...
...Negroes," says the Ford Foundation's Edward Meade, "speak with such a thick dialect that they cannot be understood by other Americans." In the simple interests of comprehensibility, Ford and others in the past three years have undertaken, Professor Higgins style, to add pure Huntley-Brinkley speech to thousands of Negroes brought up on Amos 'n' Andy accents...
Superficial Irritant. A few militant Negroes resent any attempt to alter their speech habits. Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...
...proclaims. The military, which holds the real balance of power, still bans any direct reference to the slain strongman or the use of his Democratic Party's name, but Demirel's Justice Party uses as its symbol an iron-grey horse-and the word for that, in dialect, is demirkirat. The demirkirat has become so popular that in one Black Sea village a Justice Party supporter last week knifed a Republican who, he felt, was singing a folk song about a grey horse without the proper respect...
...home" to California as usual after the season. "When I get ready to go, I'll say so-in plain English." That incredible prediction pointed up the reason for the whole mixup: Casey had been talking to city hall reporters, who specialize in municipal prose, New York dialect; it is only the sportswriters, after all, who pretend to understand Stengelese...