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Dingo is a dirty word in the Australian vocabulary. As an adjective, it connotes extreme cowardice. As a noun, it refers to a species of wild dog, usually yellow and about the size of a German shepherd, whose bite is worse than its bark.* In the 19th century, before any organized attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild...
...grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...
Threaded through such stories is a mixed garland of parodies, including Faulkner (Requiem for a Noun), Elizabeth Bowen ("Tennyson, Anyone?") and Ring Lardner, who is sent up in the guise of a Little League manager writing home in You Know Me, Alice...
...sounds ungrammatical to white ears, it is merely conforming to its own rules. Thus, in the demonstrator's placard, the pronoun themself leaves off the standard English -ves ending because them already establishes plurality. Since Black English rarely uses suffixes, neat means the same as the Standard English noun neatness. Black English also does not differentiate between genders of pronouns, so it is perfectly correct for a speaker to say, "He a nice little girl." In unraveling these rules, however, linguists encounter a problem-almost nobody speaks "pure" Black English. Ghetto blacks, hearing their speech scorned by whites...
...special clock hand fastened to the trays to point to the symbol that expresses what they want to say. Naturally there are symbols for such simple words as yes and no, hello and goodbye, man and woman. There is also a symbol for action that turns a noun into a verb. For example, a child who wants to say "Father sees mother" points first to the sign for father, the male symbol topped by the sign for roof or protection ψ. Next the child points to the eye symbol ? and then to the action indicator ψthus transforming the noun...