Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1930 — Page 22

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TEACHER HOLDS SLANG HAS ITS • USE IN SPEECH Language Often Improved by ‘Backdoor Route,’ Says Dixon. BY SHELDON KEY For a speaker to be overcome with dismay at inadvertent use of a 6lang phrase is a piece of linguistic foolishness that Jane Austen, Thackeray, or even the scholarly Shakespeare would have laughed at. These writers resorted to slang without apology, and many of the most dignified words of the dictionary have come in through the “backdoor,” Jerome Hixon, De Pauw university, revaled to the English teachers’ section of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association Thursday afternoon. Instead of telling the teachers how they can stop slang in the schools, Hixon discoursed on the impractic ability of such task. p Task Is Too Difficult “To substitute anew language free from all taint of slang would be as hßrd as to purge the language of all superstition,” Hixon told the speech and grammar experts. To prove that much df our language arose from vulgar usage, he referred to the classics. "For instance, quoting from ‘Hamlet,’ Shakespeare’s Polonius said, ‘Harping on my daughter,* and, again, you find that modem expression ‘as dead as a doornail’ in 'Henry 111 ’ “In the ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,’ Shakespeare plainly resorts to slang by saying ‘What the dickens,’ ” Hixon said. Tossing this challenge at those who would cast a stone in face of the classic, Hixon continued, “We must be careful not to trust too much to slang, for it constantly is changing, but when it fills the meaning as in the word, babbitt,, use it.” Cities Changing Phrases Impermanence of certain undergraduate mouthings as, ‘‘Shake a leg, get the puddle jumper and barge me over to the struggle" was demonstrated by the speaker. Hixon the teachers to protest when students resort to such expressions as “shak£ a leg,” “heby-jeebies,” “so’s your old man.” College slang of 1900 is obsolete today, Hixon declared, and on the campuses the “lemon” of 1928 gave way to the “raspberry" of 1929. which likewise has been discarded for “pineapple” of 1930. In conclusion, a long list of former slang words, now in proper usage, was presented to support the contention that no single force can stop slang and the diction actually used by man is what makes a language.

DECIDES U, S. MAY KEEP BOOZE MONEY Man Drops Claim to $1,450 Taken in Raid After Law Threat. S'/ Times Special DE7TROIT. Oct. 17.—George Verrast stood in federal court here and demanded $1,450 dry agents had found in a speakeasy till. “Well,” said George Fitzgerald, assistant district “put your hand on this Bible, swear it's your money and you can have it. Os course there’s a little law about it—a matter of five years or so.” Verrast considered the matter deeply. “No,” he concluded. “It's not my dough.” ' $53 LOOT IN HOLDUPS Druggist Robbed by Armed Thug; Negroes Take Cash. Bandits obtained $53 in two holdups Thursday night, according to reports today to police. Charles Eidle, proprietor of a pharmacy at Thirteenth and Illinois streets, said an armed thug robber him of $25, and Arthur Edelen, 1602 Martiindale avenue, said two Negroes obtained S2B from him. Saturday Special! Baked Chicken Dinner p Cooked the Good fi 1 Old-Fashioned ■ 1 (0 Country Way! Includes fresh dressed spring: chicken from our own farm at Thornton n. dressing candied sweet potatoes, scalloped corn, cream slaw and cranberry sauce. Boyer’s Lunch 34 N. Delaware tOUR PRICES Gold Crown, $4 per tooth Bridge Work, $4 per tooth Artificial Sets, *lO Fainless Extracting. 60c Extracting Free When Plates or Bridge* Are Ordered. THE PEOPLES DENTISTS W. Wah. St. Examination Free SPECIAL I 5-Pc. Unfinished I Breakfast Set. . /fD Washington Fum. Cos. I 361 W, Washington St. Tailored to Your AM Individual Meas- wl 1 CREDIT LEON'S 254 Mats. Ave. ~BUY NOW!~SS Allowed } For Tour Old Store on Any Sew I or Bebulit Store. BASF TERMS LEWIS FURNITURE CO. I United Trade-la Store 1 . Mori dine St. Phono Dr. b|

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