Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people apart from the lowland Vietnamese who sneer at them as moi (savages). In any language they are rebellious, superstitious, troublesome and riddled with diseases. Traveling by Land Rover, the big-boned, blue-eyed doctor sat around the fire in 200-odd Montagnard villages, becoming fluent in their principal dialect, sipping their raw rice wine and occasionally, as a good guest should, eating a native delicacy...
DEAN (turning to his textbook): The dictionary calls it "confused, unintelligible language: gibberish, a dialect regarded as barbarous or outlandish." But we at Instant call it the Expert's Ultimate Weapon. In 1967, it will hypnotize friends, quash enemies and intimidate whole nations. Follow...
...children into the faith. Not only is intermarriage more common today, but younger Parsis are growing indifferent to the elaborate rituals and obscure doctrines of the faith. Relatively few Parsis can even read the three extant volumes containing Zoroaster's teachings, which are written in an ancient Persian dialect. Although proud of their history, many Parsis increasingly regard the religion they profess as an expression of a unique cultural heritage rather than as a faith to be lived...
...Belgian town of Chièvres-hardly grand and barely a place-stared sullenly as the cavalcade of black limousines and a police escort swirled up. "Things like that don't happen much around here," allowed one, "so we figured that it must be that Chape [Walloon dialect for SHAPE] thing again." It was. NATO's General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was hunting new quarters...
...popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones) by a Thai convert to Christianity, another based on an African chant...