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...Cantinflas, advised Cardenas to put a stop to his joshing. Said he: "You ought to stop this. It was by permitting such ridicule of the Spanish Republican Government that we lost public confidence resulting in our downfall." Ignored was Prieto's advice. Cantinflas is now popularizing a new verb in the Mexican language. The verb is "cantinflear," which means to talk much, say little, indulge in wild non sequiturs. Cantinflas constantly rebuffs German propagandists eager to use the popular theatre in Mexico to get the Führer's message across...
...people are a one-language people. Unlike Europeans, many of whom are bilingual by second nature, most good Americans speak nothing but bad English. In school, they study foreign languages for "mental discipline," usually finish their course better able to decline a French verb than to use it. But lately many signs have appeared that World War II may modify U. S. language habits...
...readers are. Last week a Chicago psychologist came up with a word-counting formula for measuring not readers but writers. Goateed, Russian-born Dr. David Pablo Boder, head of the psychology department at Lewis Institute (a technical school) and director of its Psychological Museum, called his formula the Adjective-Verb Quotient...
...also a verb, transitive and intransitive (see Webster...
...Reactions to Reader Smith's suggestion that "hitler" be welcomed into the language as a lower-casenoun or verb, meaning a lie or to tell a lie (TIME, Oct. 23) were about equally divided...