Word: dialectism
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...speakers through shows like Hablando, a popular half-hour morning program. AT&T, which sponsors Chinese Dragon Boat Festival races and Cuban folk festivals, runs broadcast and print ads in the U.S. alone that reach 30 different cultures in 20 different languages, including Korean, Tagalog and the West African dialect + Twi. Says Jacqueline Morey, director of multicultural marketing at AT&T: "Marketing today is part anthropology...
...lesson succeeds appropriately through an act of language. Wiggins gets the young man to write his thoughts in a journal, nine pages of semiliterate dialect that should not work in 20th century fiction but does because Gaines delivers a written equivalent of authentic oral expression, not a romanticized rendering of black English...
Mamet intends to examine the pathetic underside of society, a stratum playwrights tend to ignore. In the process, however, he delivers a play that is as redundant and empty as their lives. Director Spiro Veloudos, whose sense for dialogue and dialect is keen, unfortunately fails to impact energy and drive to a script that requires much...
...difficult as anything, really. But it did get harder as it went along, actually. It's like learning another language or another dialect. In the beginning it's very difficult to switch back and forth...
...Gallic lamina is thin. The Ivory Coast's population, 13 million, consists of 80 ethnic groups, each of which speaks a different dialect. The miracle country is growing somewhat threadbare. Throughout most of the 1970s, the Ivory Coast enjoyed annual economic-growth rates of 6% to 7%, the most vibrant in former French West Africa. The trend has reversed since coffee and cocoa prices collapsed in the 1980s. High oil prices mean a gallon of gasoline sells at $5. From 1986 to 1989, export earnings dropped from $3.2 billion to $2.5 billion, while costs continued to rise. Total debt...