The Phoenix index., 1939-12-23
Dialect Comes To Flower

IN THE FILMING of the famous novel Gone With The
Wind Susan Myrk the Macon Telegraph who born near
the of Medgele and who is authority Georgia folk
employed by the Selzc interest to teach dialect gram
and coach the players in that genuine pronunciation words
peculiar South and Georgia people in particular In one
of her personal narratives Miss Mrck has paid tribute to the od
time Negroes of her home county where her mother used to think
she took up too much time with the Negroes
In many sections of the rural South schools still being
taught old church sanies with teachers poorly prepared and
scarcely paid at all "You al still supposed to be the only
form to puralze yo people say cyow for and WON
for
Iteracy is not only regmented and enforced but goied
In that chapter Gone With The Wind still remains to
be written.
Charles Dickens while visit to the United States III
writing back in England said: Nearly every woman
bred in the slave states to large speaks the tongue OF the
Negro" While altogether complimentary to tell white
people they talk like Negroes this is exactly what Dickens I'M
ped He took his version from the fact that white children
picked up readily the broken tongue of their nurses than
they did the veneer coaching of their parents.
Many authorities have for about the broken
dialect of the South Some say that the dialect should not be
ascribed the Negro; that it possible that the enu1clation OF
the Negro older English than that of the white man 1t is
said that while the white extent lost his the Negro has
proved better of English accent 1t is also advanced
tv the authorities that the only true Negro tongue the
Guah which itself has been absorbed i'll the naesrom of broken
English.
However there are no scientific rules and it require
the help book learning speak the tongue of the in
those states that pay $H per capita for the whites and forty cents
per capita for Negro education.
heavy go with the wind The broken of group
has been absorbed by the other To educate at the
pense and the exclusion of the other like blowing hot and
cold the time An average tongue will succumb to the
condition regulates average morals ideals and political
ntutons There be such condition half law and hall
mob half educated and half ignorant
Many still support expensive barriers between certain
groups and professional graduate work in school systems
Many still issue certain groups less than half loaf
in the civic and political agenda Of social order
Margaret Mitchels great novel Gone With The Wind is
wonderful educational value 1t placing before
the county and the world the truth about the old South and the
Inheritance that hangs into the 1t will prove amazingly
entertaining but students of es deeper and missions will
lind much which to shed bitter
AS much his advantages have been and dlstaSteu
he is in politics. the enthusiasm and wild acclaim of Gone With
The Wind another of those evidences how emphatic Ne
gro life reactions and artistic temperament have affected the
story of America No real of art and literature be COM
pee the old the South with that gamor of color and
that reality of hnanim without his interpretations, heeruness
and homely philosophy
Thomas Nelson Page Joel Chandler Harris Frank L. Stan
Sarge P1mkett and Harry Stwel Edwards all the
basic recognition of their work the folklore and rocng tenn
per of the colored group.
The best stories commanding national and international at
tenon those including the characteristics customs and faiths
of the Negro group He all in all American and such great
inquire his conditions exhibit his patriotism and
claim for him front scat in the placements of real American
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