Word: dialectism
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Even Shirley Ann Grau's best novel, The Hard Blue Sky, is very casually plotted. But she can write with a poet's concentration and record dialect knowingly. Perhaps The Condor Passes is merely an attempt to join the mainstream-as the South is now supposed to be doing-and to market all that distilled violence nationally. Still, there is richer life in the bayous than in the mainstream. One can only hope that she will soon be back in her old pirogue...
...forms despite all the critics who prefer phonics from the start. On balance, says Dr. Carl Smith of Indiana University's Reading and Evaluation Center, "Many of our traditional approaches have been successful with many children, but chiefly those with normal cultural experiences, a typical vocabulary and no dialect problems...
Rashai described how the people of the southern provinces of Narathivas, Yala, and Pattani are not only Muslim, but also of Malay ethnic stock who speak Malaysian dialect rather than Thai. "Not only do they consider themselves to be Malay, but the Thai government reinforces that feeling by appointing Thai Buddhists from Bangkok who can't speak Malay, which increases the feeling of domination...
...made college financially accessible to a great number of people, he has destroyed the incentive to go on to college by consenting to a reduction in the number of years students must attend school from nine to six. Classes in public schools are now conducted in Katherevousa, the literary dialect, which is normally not used in ordinary speech. While the use of Katherevousa may elevate the conversational level of some Greeks, for many, particularly the poor, it represents an immense obstacle to learning. In short, Sioris, as Minister of Education, has set out to destroy education for the common people...
...into the semiconsciousness of the whole world. The BBC's pop network is overrun with Pepper & Tanner jingles ("It's what's happening . . . Radio One"). So is station Rediffusion Singapore. For the state radio system of Malawi, P. & T. tapes are dubbed in Chitumbuka, a native dialect. It was P. & T., naturally, which prerecorded the "This Is Apollo Weather" parody "intros" played by the astronauts during the Apollo 12 moon shot...