Word: dialects
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...stories are written in a jarring blend of phonetic dialect ("Shuddap, you bassars or I'll trun the lot of you out") and literary flourishes ("She saw in the bough of the child the tree of the man"). As explained by Brown, the accent contains "the ghosts of several dialects common to soldiers . . . [but] is certainly not Brooklynese...
...ramshackle trucks, coughing asthmatically, clambered on over China's battered, tortuous highways. The truck drivers were young men wearing filthy civilian clothes and speaking a hodgepodge dialect which they hoped was Chinese. They were publicity-shy members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), doing one of the war's toughest jobs. From China last week came the full story of this band of young pacifists...
...Island from Indian Chieftain Badger (Anthony Quinn), originator of the Badger Game, for the customary price. Then he plunks forward a hundred years or so into the middle of Knickerbocker Holiday minus Peter Stuyvesant, again meets and at last appreciates Miss Leslie. She gets him talking hindside-to Dutch dialect so automatically that, jailed, he sings An Angel If I Had the Wings Of. When at length the genie gets control of his defective time machine, he restores the hero to the present, in the uniform he wanted all along...
...quondam Confederate, turned local bandit, by her snarling contralto rendition of Der Tannenbaum (Maryland! My Maryland!); San Francisco in its heyday, which includes 1) an infatuated Russian multimillionaire (Walter Slezak), 2) the attempted pirating of a Chinese junk, 3) its sagacious proprietor, who speaks Oriental proverbs in Edinburr dialect, 4) a duel with rapiers on a blood-red floor, 5) a hair-raising stagecoach chase, 6) a happy ending. This does not, perhaps, give a very clear idea of the story, but that is no great loss. One of the odd things about this odd picture is that there really...
...Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was reported to have sent a disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees were dividing large landholdings among the peasants...