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...gonna let nobody turn me 'round turn me 'round, turn me 'round, Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round I'm gonna keep on walkin', keep on a-talkin' Marching up to freedom land...
...American tendency to unchecked garrulity is most conspicuous in the realm of TV sports, but it does not begin or end there by a long shout. The late-evening TV news, for example, is aclutter with immaterial chatter. "Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk . . ." Rodgers and Hammerstein offered that lyrical advice to young lovers, but a great many TV news staffers have adopted it as an inviolable rule of tongue. Happy talk is not reprehensible, but should it be force-fed to an audience looking for the news? Surely not, no more than a sports fancier tuning in football...
...would you please stop talkin' and listen to me? I wanna move back into my old room. I could save money that way; it'd be real easy...
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...hang out." A few days later, problems have arisen, and he is less amiable. "By God," he says, "either you do it, or I'll find a job for you in the tiddlywink factory. I hope I've made myself clear. I ain't talkin' to hear my head rattle...