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on Wednesday as usurl.
DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?
But
no
custont
certain
also to be taken into account in dealing with this problem if are to make more rapid progress in fighting it. The disease is of
By JOHN BLUNT world-wide prevalence; between the years 1918 to 1927 It has been
if there i# It is a rather curious fact.that| entimated that 40 millions HRVC
while much American slang governing the choice between died of tuberculosis in the various
gains currency in England, it is long and abort words, it does look not generally realised that tho as if the Americans had rather a countries of the world. In India over six millions are said to be
of English Itself is under go-fondness for using two or more words whore we would use one. ing great changes in America. до affected by the disease, and that
And yet this is true to such an A woman does not say that sho "teaches extent that the language of even teaches but that she over a million die annually. An
The Sincere Co., Ltd., anneunes cultivated Americans has a slight-school"; you do not watch foot- astounding price to pay for the list to-morrow, being Confucius's ly exotic flavour, while curtain ball, but a "football game"; a infringement of Nature's simple, Commemoration Day, their stores werds are positively incompre- private in the army is an "en- has de- will be closed for business, re-opening hensible without the context. Bated man"; and lo' a restaurant laws. For wherever man
Who, for instance, could tell one's fair companion is likely to parted from the natural and simple
By taking a dose of optum, Wong that a "commuter" was a season- discuss "crab, meat" and "soa ways of life and has created for
It is obvious that Ching, a married woman of 129, Tung ticket holder that is to.nay, one food." * himself an artificial environment, Chol Street, Mongkok, committed who commnutes his daily fare for
auicide yesterday. Her body was another system of payment; that American usages have boon de
by special circum- tuberculosis has arisen as the later removed to the Public Mortuary. "rare" as applied to ment, means termined
country having underdono (doubtless from raw); stances. The avenger to exact full payment. In
In the attempting to alight from that "wild," also applied to meat, beep, for the most part, opened every city and town of the
a tramcar whilst it wan motion
be called a ċivilized world where there is in yesterday a young Chinese, of Holy means rank- "before you cook a up by railways, it is natural that
Cross Path, received injuries to his possum you must cut out the wild a railway should
And dustrialism, crowding together of
hend and was taken to the Govern-meat;" that an "Interne" is the railroad" for in the early days
resident physician of a hospital; It fulfilled both Tunctions. human beings, sweated labour, ment Civil Hospital for treatment.
that I ""tuxedo" is a dinner. jus the word servunt has a deroga- low wages, unemployment, alco-
An eleven-year-old girl, Chung Jacket; that a "translent" is a tory significance in domocratic holism, poverty, bad housing, etc., Ying, of D, grent George Street, was person who makes a brief stay in America, it is natural that a ser-
removed to the Government Civil tuberculosis thrives and spreads spital last night suffering from a all hotel; that "truck farming" is vant girl should be a "hired girl." For many words employed by the Americans have substi- and from the cities the surround- fractured leg received when she ran market gardening.
"Good-looking" Suit. ing villages become gradually in-into a bicycle in Hennessy Road, near
Great George Street.
Certain adjectives have devetutes, which, while perfectly com- prehensible, nevertheless sound new shades of meaning. strange to English ears. loped
Here Dr. Mistowski, F.T.C.L.. vinitel
"homely" woman may follow the Helens Diny Institute laat Thurs. Thus day evening, to hear the reeltal given mean simply a woman whose con- ting-room in a "living-room"; a by Miss Norah Flint's Indies choir.luct commends itself, On the lodger is n "Toomer", a charwo them on their pro- other hand, "good-looking" may man is a "scrub-woman" petrol then with one he used of things as well as ofis "gasolene," shortened to "gas"; gress and of his own sed the hope that ho might hear them suit again next year, and that in
fected.
If in countries where great pro- gress and reforms have been made in the sanitary, social, economic educational spheres the and disease is still regarded ILM IL scourge, what devastation must it cause in countries where such re- forms are still in the primitive stages or not so advanced! The disease being ordinarily one fairly long duration, its victims drip off one by one unnoticed, and its ravages do not strike the im-
of
Ile cone Clarette expres persons "what
The health bulletin for
cases
the
3
a good-looking
you're -wearing."
The
some specimens.
A sit-
while flat is an "apartment"; a holi- "rubbera"; Insects are "bugs"; a meantime, their membership would "ordinary," in its application to day is a "vacation"; golashes are steadily increase.
people, implies common.
limited company is an "incor- derivation of this last word is porated" company; situated is Eastern simple: ordinary equals common parts for the week ended September and common equals vulgar. Fur-"loented:" an undertaker a most 17, shows the following cases of in-thermore, "dumb" may be stupid important personage in America, cremated-is a "mortician"; and fectious diseases and deaths there and "mean" may be nasty-"he where practically every corpso is from: Plague; Bombay 3
gave me a mean glance."
veterinary 21
aurgeon Colombo 2 deaths,
casea 1 death.
Some American terms are at
"veterinarian." Cholera; Calcuttan 17
17 enses 5 deaths, Pro:u-Penh 1 cuse 1 death, Saigon 1st very misleading to an Eng- cases 10 ishman. To quote: the chairman Amoy 31 operating epidemic diseases such deaths, Canton 1
king 13 cases 1 death, Shanghai 47 while its managing director is ils
deaths. Small-pox;
Alex
"chairman." Again, a "cracker as cholera, small-pox or plague, cases G
dreaded andria & cases I death, Basrah 1 case is a biscuit, but a "biscuit" is which though more
1 death, Bombay cases 4 deaths, come.
udens 6 cases, Pondicherry 3 cases
deaths.
+
is
it
Of course, many Americans
September 24, 1932, to Mr. and agination as do the more rapidly case 2 death case 2 deaths, Nan- of a company is its "president "still use the English forms of such
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mrs. F. L. De Rozario begs to tender actually cause less destruction,
her most grateful thanks to all relatives and friends for their less suffering and less expense. kind expression of sympathy sent
mina F. R. Romano.
*www.
The
3 deaths, Saigon 1 case 2 Typhus; Port Said 1 1 case.
of
For originality of theme, excellence production and acting, "Devil' good
Hongkong Telegraph. means at their command. Ceylon generally is admirable, with the
words, but, nevertheless, trend
the
towards divergence is strongly marked. Here are some old examples: the last letter of the alphabet is pronounced "zce": Yes, the English language in America is undoubtedly taking on aluminium is spelt "aluminum": national tinge, and it is inter- small cup of black coffee is a in her recent bereavement, and Owing to this fact neither the also for the numerous floral tri- State nor the people treat the
esting to see the new significance "demi-tasse" (a term unknown in which some words have acquired. France); and a "drug store" is butes, and attendance at the
Again, "lunch counter", a "soda foun- funeral of the late Mrs. Guilher-problem of tuberculosis as a mat-Lattery," now showing at the King's For example, to "despise" is fre- not only a chemist's shop, but a
tain" and a bookshop. ter of urgent and prime import-Theatre, is to be commended. Elissa quently only to dislike.
Landi has the main role, and it is as a provincialism, "unch" may
Your Sophisticated Hats, ance, and one that should be sufficient to say that she gives of her be supper, and all over the coun-
Just as we probably usa cer- fought with all the resources and best and thus contributes largely to try a "workhouse" is a prison for
the success of the film. The casting minor offences.
tain words with frequency that But the most elastic word in would sound rather singular to mean an American, so do Americans use comedy parts well handled by Victor Maclagen and Beryl Mercer. The America is "fix;" it may
different things accord-certain words with frequency story revolves round a week-end party endless which a newspaper Peer, winner of ing to the context. You "fix" the which are of relatively rare op the Derby, gives at bis castle to the dinner, meaning that you prepare currence in England. Politicians
holders of
on are always "scoring" their up- Sweep it, and you "x" the stove
and the head of any manner tickets. Ail
which it is cooked, meaning that ponents, guests,
you mend it. And perhaps if the organisation, from the army and murder and other com*
terms AR plications, to say nothing of romance, guest for whom you have done all navy down, is the "ranking" mem-
of it. Such
"re- are amongst the developments. Well this annoys you, you may finish ber
"debutante," and "fixing" him-which means "maron,"
com- worth seeing. The supporting films by
also. lax" are fifty times more are also of much interest, malding up that he has to be mended
mon in America thin In England; bana really excellent programme,
its while "sophisticated," in oversens of
special meaning of smart and
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1992.
THE WHITE SCOURGE
Ceylon, like Hongkong, linds tuberculosis one <if its big- gest health problems, but, al- from the though the enth-rate disease is still very high, Sonic mitigation of the evil has been taking place in recent years. The
causes for the better state of affairs are several, but amongst others the establishment of an Anti-Tuberculosis Institute, with consequent better diagnosis
is doing something in the way of definite war on the disease, and it surely behoves the authorities in Hongkong to keep. a vigilant watch on the dread scourge.
and
Calcutta
the
figure among
Exchanging Art Treasures.
A most useful word. The efforts to raise the
"Most Everybody Says. upon the lending
Sometimes the Americans use paintings in the British Museum promise proposed by the trustees;
we do, and modern, is beloved by advertisers. It is even applied to such inuni- and National Gallery display the of the British galleries, that only longer words than
sometimes shorter. There is no mate objects ns ladies' hats, desire of British people to make loans of works by British artists rule. Thus, while stap is a though how a hat can be sophis It possible for foreign countries should be allowed, hardly com-"faucet," gum "mucilage," and a ticated is quite a puzzle.
Slang is a fluid and self-cons- to organize for their people ex- mends itself. hibitions of old masters drawn equally great interest in the works sleepers are "ties, strawberries cious thing in every country, but from various countries. Such ex- of non-British artists in British berries" tout court; (raspberries, language despite allen origine, is
however, are usually referred to hibitions have been held in Lon- galleries. Hence
There is at least lift an "elevator"; yet rullway
the interdict
and earlier recognition, is to be people. As London art galleries, types of pictures if the desired somewhat tasteless variety of of the soil. And thus it may be
in-
in
to
senting the imponderable genius don to the great delight of many loans should be lifted from all as "red raspberries," as there is an autochthonous growth, repre-
black raspberry); a full stop ir a
supposed that in centuries "period," and almost is frequently come the English of the United so shortened ta "most"-"most States will diverge more and more
everybody was present."
from the English of England and become a Juster mirror of that something unique in the paycho- logy of her people. It is quite to be desired, for so do nations-give expression to their personality.
contain a large number of old advance is to be made toward noted. The general and progres-
Italian, Dutch, Flomish; and, ternational co-operation sive improvement of the sanitary
Spanish masters, any other coun-praiseworthy an activity. condition of Colombo is also a
try will be handicapped in the factor. A further aid has been holding similar exhibitions unless the appointment of a whole-time the present law forbidding the inspector to deal with insanitary loan of pictures from London gal- International buildings in the city, and the leries is amended. netion taken by him to render fit reciprocity in this field is indeed for habitation a large number of extremely desirable. Having en joyed its benefits and having dwellings (over four thousand lately collected in London from: from 1925 to 1930) is reported to
every corner of the world the have contributed very materially treasures of the East for the ex- to the reduction in the incidenca | hibition of Persian art, it is dif- of the disease.
Acult to see how Britain can very well refuse a favour which it-has In an official report on the. disease, the Medical Omeer of already accepted from other coun- trics. Yet the, House of Lords Ceylon says tuberculosis is a pro- expressed itself unwilling to con- blem not only to the sanitarian
cede these powers to the trustees and the social worker but, owing of the British Museum and the Indeed, the to a intimate and inseparable National Gallery. association with economic and trustees apparently turned down social factors, such as indus- the Government's offer. The ren- advanced, however, seem trialism, wages, unemployment, sons
If the aingularly unconvincing, poverty, housing, etc., it has be- risk entailed in the transport of come a national problem of the a painting by an old master is greatest importance and
comreally so great, then international plexity to the State. In spite of exhibitions cannot be held at all, the great strides taken in the West for no untion can be asked to risk The in matters of Banitation and losing the irreplaceable.
exhibitione, however, public health, the disease has not London been completely wiped out yet, but furulah an answer: both Holland and Italy wore anxious to be still continues to levy a terrible ploncors in such international ex toll of lives, being more deadlyhibitions. If a painting could go and expensive in its effect than safely by sea from Rome, to war. Sanitary progress alone lins | London and back again, a almllar not been sufficient to attack it. | palating from à London gallery The social and economic factors should make the same- journey
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THIS WAR FEVER
By General Edward Kolly, B.O. We foresee complications re- sulting from the eagerness on the part of adventurous Australians, who want to go and fight in the Paraguay-Bolivian "war".
These Anzacs don't mind which sido they're on, so long as they can be in a dust up.
In the thick of the fight the Paraguaylan Australian colonel would sight the Bolivian Austra Han colonel, and yell, "Well, atone the crows If it ain't old Bluey!" And the war would be held up' on that particular sector, and i A few days the front line would bo turned into a vast two-up school,
ro-
There will be Australian unions all over the place.
"What you fighting on the Bolivian side for, Bluey?"
"Strowth Am I? I thought I was with the other mob. How's
the grab on your side?"
And a message is sent by the Bolivian Australian general to the Paraguaylan Australian goncral:-
"Donr Splinter-Would you mind retiring about four hun- dred yards this arvo as I want to advance. I notice, you can. disining bilchter that you mu