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Show the neutral language. Barber Was Taking No Chances With His Customers. The harber was busy. The customer custo-mer looked up at him and said: "How do you s'pose th' war. is goin' to turn out?" The barber said something that nobody no-body understood. The customer repeated re-peated his question. The barber repeated re-peated his answer. It sounded like Choctaw is supposed to sound. Then he said: : "How cold did it get today?" ' A little later on his oldest customer custo-mer asked him -what he said to the man. The barber grinned. "Did you hear what he asked me?" "Yes." "Well, I ain't gittin' in no mo' trouble trou-ble if I can help it. I've lost three of my best customers by answerin' fool questions. Yo' can't tell by look-in' look-in' at a man which way his war sympathies sym-pathies jump. No, sir. When dey begin be-gin th' war questions I give 'em back the kind o' talk y' just heard me giv-in'." giv-in'." "I didn't understand what you said. What language was it?" The barber tested his razor on his thumb nail. Then he grinned. "Dat's what I call de neutral language," lan-guage," he replied. 'Cleveland Plain Dealer. |