Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commend the book for its literary qualities. It contains enough gummed-up syntax to patch hell a mile. But as a study in the art of carrying water on both shoulders, of sophistry, of writing with tongue-in-cheek, and of intellectual dishonesty, I think it has no superior since the beginning of time...
Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...
...Tennessean calmly printed the entire tirade-adding that it had not corrected "errors of grammar or syntax." The Tennessean also published pictures of two animals and one human being, correctly identifying them: "This is Ed Crump. . . . This is a Quagga. . . . This is a Wanderoo...
...American Newspapers Inc., publisher of the New York Journal-American, and currently-with his second wife, Lorelle McCarver Hearst-one of Father Hearst's most favored war correspondents. His copy, lavishly displayed in Hearstpapers, is edited only by Father Hearst himself. Last week Hearst-reading students of syntax puzzled over this Junior-written and presumably Senior-edited passage in a cabled dispatch from London...
...synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted one which might be called Hogbod: Hogben calls it Interglossa and recently published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates, says Bodmer, might learn to write and speak it in far less time than is required to master English, French or German...