Word: televenglish
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Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow's Person to Person program. Most of the "persons" on his shows never fail to begin a statement without "Assa maddera fack...
Your article was awright, but in twenny years Televenglish will definitely sound natchral...
...Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...
...longer exist, as against folks; the language of narrative develops in the key of 'There's this ranch owner in this movie'; 'the true facts' are always presented, presumably as opposed to the untrue facts." As for pronunciation, gennelmen, twenny and akshally are excellent Televenglish. The participial g tends to disappear (smokin' L & M cigarettes) as surely as the l from awright, and one giveaway M.C., who feels badly when a contestant loses, has popularized congradulate...
Concludes Fadiman: "With authoritative teachers by the thousands daily and nightly teaching Televenglish to 170 million students, it is likely that in 50 years the Televenglish professor will be examining an obsolescent minority idiom known as English, just as today the academic linguist studies the argot of thieves or the slang of the hashhouse counterman...
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