Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...welcome Clement Attlee back from his White House conferences, the London Daily Mail ran a cartoon of the Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
...realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers/ While the parsley was parceling the peas...
...almost dark in the gambling house by the bridge, but a fantan game is going on. Chinese and Nungs (residents of Moncay region, born in Indo-China but of Chinese origin and speaking the Cantonese dialect) are putting their piasters on what they think is the winning number. Little shops are open, too. Come what may, these people are not going to Haiphong. If the French pull out and the Communists move in, they expect to keep on doing business...
Gregory Ratoff, Hollywood dialect comedian-turned-director, got nowhere when he tried to buy T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. Informed of Ratoff's intent, Eliot said: "I've been dreading this for a long time. I do not want The Cocktail Party made into a film...
...well-muscled people with broad faces and flat noses. Most Formosans still live in the straw-thatched huts which are the homes of South China's peasants or in the two-story brick houses which are the homes of South China's gentry. Formosans speak a Fukienese dialect, and few can talk to mainland Chinese without an interpreter...