Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
...week Robbins was sent by the cheers of his "dicty" public into a top job-the M.C. spot on the Columbia Record Shop. With 359 stations, he would be the most widely broadcast disc jockey, but would have to educate his audience gradually into the mysteries of his "spectacular vernacular." With his take from the 1280 Club, he would now be grossing some $40,000 a year...
These letters fall into two classifications: those in painful English which can't be understood, and those in foreign vernacular (which, unless one is a native, also can't be understood...
They brought with them only a few possessions: some pandanus leaves to thatch their new houses; their vernacular Bibles, Congregational Hymnals and Mother Hubbards which had been left them by Yankee missionaries, and latent syphilis left by Yankee whalers of the pre-atomic...
...whole, it might have been better to leave English out of the film. The dialogue, full of literal translations of Spanish vernacular, is often merely funny where it should be eloquent. The plot, which might have seemed charmingly pastoral in a foreign tongue, seems only out-of-date...