Word: interlocutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used. Mr. Behn produces the virtual effect of dialect, in his "Translation from the Navajo", by a well arranged introduction of Indian words and by an imitation, in the direct discourse, of Indian simplicity of speech. But why does Mr. Morrison, in "Leaves and Fishes", cause his interlocutor suddenly to perform the impossible feat of abandoning his natural dialect when quoting the Baptist minister...