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Show Language of Broadcasts The talking motion pictures and the radio are undeniably having an effect on language as It is spoken. The microphone has definite limits, which are even further limited by the films and their technique. Long words, and particularly sibilant words with nuance of inflection, do not reproduce properly. So for the making of "talkies" there has to be a vocabulary censorship. This censorship cen-sorship has weeded out a long list of words. It Is noteworthy that most of those words which have been retained re-tained have been those belonging, roughly speaking, to the Anglo-Saxon family. And many of those which have been banished are of distinctly Latin ancestry. Philadelphia Ledger. |