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...English Dictionary. There are only five grammatical rules ("the exceptions ... are few and unimportant")The apparently whimsical spelling of English, a grief to struggling foreigners, has not been tampered with. Ogden admits this difficulty but calls it minor, hopes to see spelling reform make plain English even plainer. No pidgin English, Basic can be used to express ideas, as Ogden proves by writing its 100-page system in Basic English...
...carried out her great experiment. Mother, servant and teacher all in one, Virginia brought up Appius with firmness and faith in the way well-behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas in pidgin English. But when Appius and some little boys got their first sight of each other over the garden wall they called him an ape; Appius had a relapse to the jungle. After that Virginia's faith in her experiment became desperate; she began to see, though she would...
...action partly a parody of border romance. Because the cinema takes itself more seriously, the climax, where the millionaire lets the girl go in order to increase his selfesteem, seems out of character instead of gay and suitable. Del Rio chants, in almost Gregorian tones, such bits of pidgin slang as "You betcha my life." She photographs as beautifully as ever...
...East are all accustomed to getting cumshaw. The Chino cook buys the groceries for the household and if he does not get his cumshaw from the dealer at the end of the month, he buys elsewhere. This practice is generally considered quite ethical. "Cumshaw'' is Pidgin English and evidently is derived from "commission...
...life (he was born in Mt. Airy, Ga., educated at the University of Georgia, Harvard Law School and the Sorbonne, lives in Chattanooga, Tenn.) but does not write the language very well. He makes short work of articles (a, an, the), turns many an otherwise inoffensive sentence into pidgin English, e. g.: ". . . her eyes made quick look up. . . ." "Here, being with people was great event." ". . . It was preposterous thing. . . ." But he writes with serious conviction, does not exaggerate nor satirize. John Fort's great-grandfather, unmoved by a camp meeting, fell from his horse on the way home, struck...