American English: A Paper Read Before the Albany Institute, June 6, 1882, with Revision and Additions1883 - 28 pàgines |
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Pàgina 344 - ... future which his mother has in view, or how this treatment conduces to the happiness of that future, he judges by such results as he feels; and finding these results any thing but pleasurable, he becomes skeptical respecting these professions of friendship, And is it not folly to expect any other issue? Must not the child judge by such evidence as he has got ? and does not this evidence seem to warrant his conclusion?
Pàgina 334 - ... special bright ; and by no means first-rate ; and not at all tonguey (or disposed for conversation) ; and that however rowdy you may be by natur', it does use you up com-plete, and that's a fact ; and makes you quake considerable, and disposed toe damn the engine ! — All of which phrases, I beg to add, are pure Americanisms of the first water.
Pàgina 347 - Let us then, for a moment, imagine the time to have arrived, when Americans shall no longer be able to understand the works of Milton, Pope, Swift, Addison, and other English authors, justly styled classic, without the aid of a translation into a language that is to be called, at some future day, the American tongue ! By such a change, it is true, our loss would not be so great in works purely scientific, as in those which are usually termed works of taste ; for the obvious reason, that the design...
Pàgina 338 - Chaucer, is silver and sliver only, at present in Great Britain. Schedule, which we invariably pronounce skedule, constitutes in England almost the only exception to the rule that ch is hard after initial s, being there called shedule. And in respect to geographical names, the closer adherence of our countrymen to the guidance of the orthography is, of course, notorious and manifest. Except the dropping, in imitation of the French, of the final s of Illinois; the two words Connecticut and Arkansas...
Pàgina 349 - ... a purpose quite different from that of Mr. Pickering; but the chief value of the book, in my estimation, lies in the contribution it makes to our knowledge of Pennsylvania provincialisms, of which the author is evidently a careful observer. About four hundred and sixty words are included, of which I will venture to say that a clear majority would be quite as little understood in decent American as in decent British society ; but it seems that we have been accused of manufacturing the whole list,...
Pàgina 345 - Lindores," published serially in Blackwood (Part II, chap. 4, No. 799 of the magazine, May, 1882) we find the following : " There are some happy writers whoso mission it is to expound the manners and customs of the great. * * And yet, alas ! to these writers when they have done all, yet must we add that they fail to satisfy their models. * * ' As if these sort of people knew anything about society!
Pàgina 348 - Nor is this the only view in which a radical change of language would be an evil. To say nothing of the facilities afforded by a common language in the ordinary intercourse of business, it should not be forgotten, that our religion and our laws are studied in the language of the nation, from which we are descended...
Pàgina 337 - This gentleman's mistake can be easily explained ; and the explanation will show that it is one into which an American may very possibly fall. It is a remarkable fact that the English spoken in America is not only very pure, but also is spoken with equal purity by all classes. This in some measure, of course, results from the success of their educational efforts, and from the fact which arises out of it that they are, almost to a man, a nation of readers. But not only is it the same language without...
Pàgina 123 - Meaning forbidden, why could they not say forbidden ? Or if it is considered desirable to have a special word to signify the formal forbidding of an action by a writ, far, far better would it be to raise to respectability a term which is now ranked with the vilest newspaper slang, and say that the action is
Pàgina 347 - ... countrymen may speak and write in a dialect of English, which will be understood in the United States; but if they are ambitious of having their works read by Englishmen as well as by Americans, they must write in a language that Englishmen can read with pleasure. And if for some time to come it should not be the lot of many Americans to publish works, which will be read out of their own country, yet all, who have the least tincture of learning, will continue to feel an ardent desire to acquaint...