Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fast. As many critics commented, the title of this opus is apt. If Southern dialect were the only requisite of great drama, Not So Fast would be another Hamlet?but that is the most that can be said in its favor. The action concerns the usual city fellers who atempt to befool the honest but apparently boobish guardian of the two girl orphans and their fortune. Of course, he befools them instead. Allegorical triumph of virtue. Curtain...
...happenings of a growing town. None of these stories rises to greatness, or pretends to do so. Some are mere sketches, some full-length, none are wholly serious. All abound in laughing observation of the antics of children and young lovers, all are excellent in the reproduction of Negro dialect and children's prattle. None is profound or disturbing, keeping the level of a quiet humor. The critics. The New York Times: " It is as if Mr. Tarkington kept a day book of observations-drawn from a very nice neighborhood." Robert Cortes Holiday: "Mr. Tarkington seems to present himself...
...Languages of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, but in 1921 went as an exchange professor to the University of Paris for one year. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a member of the Modern Language Association, the American Dialect Society, the Dante Society, the Hispanic Society of America, and the Royal Spanish Academy of Madrid...
...manifold departments and courses and degrees retain no common courses in any way related to the history of the race they will graduate men and women who will have nothing in common but their clothes. They will not even talk the same tongue, though they may all speak a dialect of one language. They will be free and unrestrained individuals. And they will have no ancestors whatever...
...American Language" was published by Henry Louis Mencken, giving a host of slang terms that have come into use in this country. But it is to the advantage of everyone from American cabdriver to British cockney, that the two countries should speak the same language, differing in dialect as little as possible; and with this end in view a committee of scholars from the two nations has been brought together...