Show I English c Society Is Murdering Yo the I English Language l I th J H FESS h EMIT HEtCH wt at o n nce ce b but ut V h beard UJ veraI times Umes I Ji 11 tile complaint mf that wh whal wh J i. i Is ls gei rJ called 4 l slang or dialect I Is 11 I fl Us Its m way into the language i i spoken loken by ly the db ted cl classes es This f- f I Is s especially so o in London ns us I have hav t- t h noticed myself lr from kon my hy own t and anU I am also nto told that th the c tame Same is the c case ie In J I that It is not In rooms drawing h ro ms f. f hat one hears nowadays the finest rhythms of ot that language langua o which Ii In 1 is IJ full fiJi of ot music and which In il ose t rose too ml might ht have hae a cadence n as gA melodious a as it Is gritty The average a conversation on en atlon 7 In London v ocl palely ly sounds like II the of or a. a telegraphic t operator From sound It becomes e a or n a ph phenomenon n ot of acoustic d. d i r Tife Londoner unlike the thc Parisian has lias never ne le he been n fl known kno to tb give hI hia hla tile el elegance anil al n l l grace that made mado Paris ever r since the days lays of Hotel the tho sea rca and anti Home of the finest diction h in l France Frace In England many people peoble 1 believe that f the thc he b best bost Rt French Is spoken In Toural Touraine E Q lJ hl blague g c To hear l French rench at its 31 ih best est Ost one must hear it spoken in Paris f f In ih the thc town where h heat beat nt both the heart k k and intellectual l i pUlse l lse e bir or France c 1 r. r l l. London has f never been th the heart of hf England The rho Intellect without a aI eart Is J h ii Hanie c without heat Such ah api Intellect becomes rapidly blase b 1 1 caustic Byzantine Having F reached ached that it moulds i I I Itself lt ah nh Idiom cold hla blase e naf nasal l choppy hoppy unmusical and graceless Have Havo the those great students o of words and small under- under of f lan language u ge ever over Inquired c t I Into the cau causes causes- eg of th th constant misA misplacement mis mis- 9 A placement nt of or the thc II 11 in Cockney talk silt I doubt it yet et there is Half h-alC the psychology Sch of Cock The l less lessi M i S emotional a people b becomes the more 0 It from parts of the head ihS Ih- Ih S ste tl of or from rom the Just as ag the most ot emotional moU Instruments are are br broad a an and Instead of or long and Heady S Ih In tile tHe New World whether In the thc 1 United States or or 01 South America th the nasal S 'S l twang may he be heard in En English S Spanish or Portuguese alike In the t S New ew W World people have o Incomparably Ie less s Int intense nse and le loss less cOmplicated r f I If r at nt times lines a more mote Violent VIolo one than Ihan have ha the older naHO nations na na- na- na HO l o of Europe Europ Hence their theil heady S rF nasal voices If It now we apply appl this S fact fad to tile the Londoner we need not noto o that hl his soul robbed as it is d df all 11 emotions is unable to muster sufficient pectoral breath for a n proper use use of the tho Hs ns lIe He man mangles les them S mangles Jes polysyllables for foi want of S emotional breath S S Society f-Society so Pt In iii certain Ja layers ers as is s rj unemotional as a 1 Chinese bronze bronzo must mustS S Pa pay thi linguIstic penalty for tor Jt It r Pectoral ct ml voices os become rare breath nets gels f fehle ebl Hs H's get got Gs G's S tiro l j oft otT and Its fl's tend to become J S SS 1 els S S r. r n turn our ouk- nt- nt Ii It I Is hl however wo Mention fentIon from the founds of ot a n. n 8 single Je I letter to 0 th le e of whole holc sentences It l II I In Sri the thc t b ot of phrases that the I br if society becomes painful As s language ge c consists o of sen sea tl nn and l not of oC w words v rd do so o n is hn important rt In fn the toni tone i rind Anti ci cadence nce of the sentence than in that or of single words word 5 Wh When t a Spaniard p or Italian asks you rou something SOr you know that a n. question has hag been asked 11 even If Ir you ou do not Understand understand understand un un- one word o of what wh he said s You hear from torn rom the cadence that it Is a 3 que question lIon Not so in London Questions I doubt amazement Iron Irony humorousness humorous humorous- ness flattery nil flattery all and everything everything- are pronounced In the same cadence ot of drizzling word drops rhe The wave wn of the 8 sentence h niti has no it cr crest crist st no no ho ing dam no heavy m fl flIt It is water flowing Train fron the rim o of U 0 rain ain hat This lack Inck of c cadence In n nn n s produces produces pro pro- pro pro- duces fin finally a II the of all features features- the anaemic lc vocabulary of drawing drawing- room conversation To lo tho i WS se Indent In tu- tu dent tent oT or life there Is a grim iron Irony p In the Ihu sight Right of a woman whose whoso dress re s is fully cho chosen en from the latest best most artistic or be would artistic mat matl Hal Haland and ahu th models and ahlI ho e of ds arc c n nr from r nm ng the ra of r the East Fast End of or England It Is not In a hUl ed dh cases that on one is given to hear heal chol choice e vocabulary th In Paris in Berlin In Romp Rom any tny man or woman ent entering a salon is expected lo to talk In Ina Ina ina a distinguished manner as to pronoun- pronoun elation and as to de Ie phrase e. e Of or London on the other hand It ml may maybe mayle be le said sold that it h t is 19 of or all places where whereto to acquire something somethIng- of or the wealth of ot English the poorest in the chances It offers for that purpose pul se In h Paris you youlear OU bear lear all that the language An contains within one ono br Or r two cirs In London not in r twenty years CalS This I am convinced con has hu as done dont incalculable harm to English prose rose Literary prose rosc Is a big river liv liv- living ing rig oh on the numerous o of fine private C lv 1 This Is 19 how women wo wo- wo- wo men ien have o at nt nil tithes times influenced the prose of their men nen Cicero himself him him- self elf says gays the best r Latin of or his ws hs t talked b by h inoh matrons p nut But whore heie us ks In l. l l loh oh talk Is g clip clip- shod hot tho of the big fiver am arc arb drained ah and auth 1 the rl itself I Is l lup up S p. p S It Ii lia ha haS b hN boon en n said paid b by e vey men nen of whom hom I have the vcr very highest Hint flint ti tn to 1 tny m S 'S thi thiS thi'S S rif i s should 1 l i rend zend nd B English aloud l I l- l talk talc i Fr French I 1 and German Goiman but mit I 1 think that tile tl cause of or tile till evil e Is far d deeper By Dy mr hI Up and tongue pure luire and antI original huil English will not be pre preserved ned En English lIsh like ever thing groat and anil precious pt cabbe cab cah be preserved on only i by the very cl tI by y which Il it was wa as produced hearts had and l kech eh minds In many an 1111 anxious crusade ot I lift the ho holy land of fir th the English h lan Ian lari I guage It will only be by hy a n proper electrification cation of or the of or r London n Joil society ty English will lii Q a to b b. b what whit It once 01 WU Wan tb-as n a maiden much like be arthic d 1 i II V h 11 Rome oni c S S T GA CAVE VE STANDARD c OIL A S 5 S S 4 4 4 S S r i I I I t r s t I 4 dr W I r rit or error 1101 In the who a 3 fir f hicl l HI GI U up IraS Ira lm- Judge Judge JUlIg landis r n I oil aln t Ih case I posing a oC HO S S S 5 S |