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...addition to serving as a Harvard Overseer from 1642 to 1685, he also translated the Bible into the Algonquin dialect and served as a pastor of the First Church in Roxbury for 60 years...
...time winner (for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs) plays a North Carolina woodswoman who has grown up utterly isolated from the outside world. Now her only companion, her mother, has died, and Nell is a rich woman -- but still barely a girl. She speaks her own dialect, recoiling from the doctor (Liam Neeson) and the psychologist (Natasha Richardson) who would help her, use her, perhaps destroy her, and who will be forever touched by her innocent sorcery...
...Black. After a bit of inane dialogue, the host guides the guests' chat around to admitting that "what you want is what you get at McDonald's today." While the message doesn't present a problem, the means of communication do. All of the actors utilize an extreme dialect and mode of speaking that no person I know, white or black, has ever used except in jest...
...otherwise bemused friend or relative, find yourself a copy of this witty account. Names of English soccer players and clubs may fly over your head, but the book's emotional content is richer than a pint of Haagen-Dazs, and it makes for a wonderfully funny read in any dialect...
Hall says he then started speaking in "Black-dialect, characterized by a different conjugation...