American EnglishA.A. Knopf, 1921 - 375 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... called " The Queen's English " ( as if terms like " the king's English " or " the king's highway " or " the king's evil " needed cor- rection in gender when the sovereign happens to be a woman ! ) to " the process of deterioration which ...
... called " The Queen's English " ( as if terms like " the king's English " or " the king's highway " or " the king's evil " needed cor- rection in gender when the sovereign happens to be a woman ! ) to " the process of deterioration which ...
Pàgina 14
... called being " in " it , need hardly be discussed . ( I regret to note the same blunder in a book by a writer of widely different calibre , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- " The Vi- tal Message , " page 158 - and what is unaccountable , Sir ...
... called being " in " it , need hardly be discussed . ( I regret to note the same blunder in a book by a writer of widely different calibre , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- " The Vi- tal Message , " page 158 - and what is unaccountable , Sir ...
Pàgina 17
... called " The Marriage Contract , " by Alicia Ramsey , published in 1913. The husband is represented as persistently slurring the terminations of present participles , after a fashion confined in this country to the very illiterate ; he ...
... called " The Marriage Contract , " by Alicia Ramsey , published in 1913. The husband is represented as persistently slurring the terminations of present participles , after a fashion confined in this country to the very illiterate ; he ...
Pàgina 24
... called " White and Black " ) that " of the body of the Ameri- can people it may be said that their language is Eng- lish a little better than that used in any county of England . " It is of course impossible to establish any standard of ...
... called " White and Black " ) that " of the body of the Ameri- can people it may be said that their language is Eng- lish a little better than that used in any county of England . " It is of course impossible to establish any standard of ...
Pàgina 30
... called the Parliamentary twang " which Bulwer Lytton noted ( in " My Novel , " Book 10 , Chap . 44 ) is about as observable now as it was when that book appeared . And then - a more important point — one must be careful not to draw the ...
... called the Parliamentary twang " which Bulwer Lytton noted ( in " My Novel , " Book 10 , Chap . 44 ) is about as observable now as it was when that book appeared . And then - a more important point — one must be careful not to draw the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 70 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Pàgina 118 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Pàgina 24 - In the first place, it will hardly be denied in any quarter that the speech of the United States is quite unlike that of Great Britain, in the important particular that here we have no dialects.
Pàgina 53 - Let the English remove the beam from their own eye, before they attempt to pull the mote from ours; and before they laugh at our vulgar keow, geown, neow, let them discard their polite keind, and geuide ; a fault precisely similar in origin, and equally a perversion of genuine English pronunciation.
Pàgina 29 - a remarkable fact that the English spoken in America is not only very pure, but also is spoken with equal purity by all classes. . . . The language in every man's mouth...
Pàgina 52 - I do not mean, that so great a deviation has taken place, as to have rendered any considerable part of our language unintelligible to Englishmen; but merely, that so many corruptions have crept into our English...
Pàgina 49 - 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 50 - ... various living languages. 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 222 - ... 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 13 - Letters," the English of which is not much worse than that of ninety-nine out of every hundred of his college-bred compatriots, will very soon become aware to what degree the art of writing our language has declined among educated Americans.