Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really undesrstand until you see forty-five of the brightest Negro students in Charleston below grade level according to national standards in reading and mathematics and unable to write a coherent paragraph. (Most had never written an essay in English, which in Charleston consists of twelve years of grammar...
...Encounter, Lolita's scholarly old man replied to Bunny. "A number of earnest simpletons consider Mr. Wilson to be an authority in my field," Nabokov began, and went on to recall their old association: "I invariably did my best to explain to him his monstrous mistakes of pronunciation, grammar and interpretation" of Russian. And, just to finish the job: "Mr. Wilson's use of English is also singularly imprecise...
...They may slur words as in "sawrat" (it's all right), "sisfirshear" (it's his first year) and "smothertam" (some other time). The sounds of f and r may be dropped as "hep yo sef" or "sistah." The th sound turns to f: "bofe" for both. Errant grammar includes "he be absent," "he do," "my mother, she done gone...
...vying ten dencies: "One has a structural basis, and you may call it the more objective. The other [Le Corbusier's] has a plastic basis, which you could call emotional. You cannot mix them. Architecture is not a martini. Architecture is a language having the discipline of a grammar. Language can be used for day-to-day purposes as prose. And if you are very good, you may speak a wonderful prose. And if you are really good, you can be a poet. But it is the same language...
...fatal phlebotomy with a .38-cal. slug. The action in Mickey Spillane's 18th book is embossed with his usual delicate imagery ("The sun was thumbing its nose at the night"), characterization ("On some people skin is skin, but on her it was an invitation to dine"), and grammar ("You lay there, kid"; "I thought I could discern shouts"). As always, the forces of law, order and decency prove no match for Spillane's private eye, whose impatience with those virtues amounts to a crusade. The people who lay around reading Spillane books-50 million copies sold...