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...Harvard senior is adding a new dialect to Widener's collection. Ronald Gerstl '57 has announced his donation of books in Papiamento to the library...
Take, for example, the story called "The Elephant Matter" (thoughtfully translated from the Loma dialect by the weekly's Editor Margaret D. Miller, daughter of a Lutheran missionary): "The women went to fish in a stream and the elephants came after them. They chased them the whole day long . . . We who went to meet the women were five. The elephants chased us too. We had to climb a tree. One man, whose name was Peiwala, took off his shoes and left them under the tree. The elephants took the shoes and spoiled them...
...Loma Weekly, published by the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Sadler of the Lutheran mission in Monrovia, could not exist if Dr. Sadler had not created a written Loma language from the spoken dialect. Now the tribesmen are becoming literate in their own tongue, eventually will move on to the study of English, the country's official language...
...enjoying parliamentary immunity, for years untouched by allegations of wartime crimes. Most conspicuous of these was hard-drinking, high-living Deputy Francesco Moranino, who was only 24 when he commanded the 12th Garibaldi Division of Red Partisans in Italy's northern hills and styled himself, in the local dialect, Gemisto-the Devil. The Communists hailed him as a patriotic hero; the country was in a mood to accept their estimate, and De Gasperi made him an under secretary in his 1947 Cabinet...
...laugh at people any more. The dialect story is out. Stories about races and creeds are bootleg items. Only the Irish have not laid down the law, and the Irish joke has been damaged because people have found out that Pat and Mike were really not Irishmen. All Irishmen are named Sean ... All this leaves Texas as the thing that the U.S. people can laugh about without looking over their shoulder or lowering their voices, and it is a good thing. The people which can't laugh at itself is going crazy...