Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...
...small fry, accustomed to an austere four ounces of sweets a week, began to speak expertly of such popular British candies as "hundreds & thousands," "bull's-eyes," "gobstoppers," "English humbugs." Six-year-old Jane Merrill gave some definitions: "'Gobstoppers' are soft and big and when there's one in your mouth it's so full you don't do anything but sputter. 'Hundreds & thousands' are called that because there are so many of them and they are measured out in a cup. They come in colors and I like pink...
...thinks in English or Spanish, can talk in either language with literary dignity or colloquial directness. Every observer who has talked with him or watched him campaigning has marveled at the kind of automatic transmission in his mind which enables him to shift his conversation or speeches into language of such needle-sharp simplicity and directness that it can go straight to the heart and mind of the humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural...
...years gave. Muñoz a good command of English, a sound understanding of U.S. intellectual and political life, and friends in New York and Washington who were later to help him in his work for Puerto Rico. In 1926 he moved back home. Muñoz had hoped that life might be cheaper and more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something...
...what little can be done should be done; and here enters the grader. This man has a horrid job. He must read, by the dozens, illegible essays written on tedious subjects in vile English. And when he has finished each essay, he must somehow decide if it deserves, say, an 89 for a B-plus or a 90 for an A-minus. But miserable as the job is, it must always be done more carefully and conscientiously than it is done now in many cases. For although there is a lively cynicism at Harvard concerning the significance of grades, their...