This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...deplores the enormity and raises the Valkyr "hoyotoho!" which shall call all Germany to repair to the breach and ward off the danger ere it be too late. The ten-year period which he set has already passed; Fatherland must have been far too ruhig; still the savage under the palms both rausses and is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...deplores the enormity and raises the Valkyr "hoyotoho!" which shall call all Germany to repair to the breach and ward off the danger ere it be too late. The ten-year period which he set has already passed; Fatherland must have been far too ruhig; still the savage under the palms both rausses and is raussed. But let the Baron in these pages sound yet once again his loud alarm: Die vorstehenden Beispiele sind nicht, says he, etwa besonders groteske, ich habe sie nur angefuhrt, wie sie mir gerade einfielen. Das ganze PidgenEnglisch bewegt sich in ahnlichen Bezeichnungen, und wer sie auchnur einmal gehort hat, der wird den sehnlichen Wunsch hegen, dass dieser Unsinn baldigst durch verniinftiges Deutsch ersetzt werde. Baldigst sag ich deshalb, well es jetzt noch Zeit ist, das Pidgen-Englisch auszurotten; vergeht aber noch ein Jahrzehnt, dann wird es sich bei der taglich wachsenden Bevolkerung so eingebiirgert haben, dass es unmoglich sein diirfte, und in weiteren funfzig Jahren besitzt das Deutsche Reich hier ein Schutzgebiet, dessen Missionbevolkerung nur englisch spricht. Fur die Weltstellung und das Ansehen Deutschlands ware dies gewiss traurig und beschamend. In alien Kolonien wird ausschliesslich oder doch vornehmlich die Sprache des Mutterlandes gesprochen, selbst in den kleinen, rings von andersprachigen Landern umgebenen portugiesischen Kolonien. Und Deutschland, das grosse, weltgebietende, sollte das nicht auch erreichen konnen? Seitens des Gouvernements des Siidseegebiete s kann vorlaufig nur der Schulunterricht in diesem Sinne geregelt werden, denn den Pflanzern und Kaufleuten kann man begreiflicherweise keine Vorschriften machen, aber das deutsche Volk kann an den Patriotismus und den gesunden deutschen Sinn unserer den...
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Add this copy of Beach-La-Mar: the Jargon Or Trade Speech of the Western to cart. $31.47, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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Contents VG-, clean and tight. Ex-lib. copy with perf. stamp on title page and page 1 and inventory number at bottom of page 1. Covers poor but protective. Part of fore edge is missing (but pages covered except for very lower right corner; lib. marks... Original covers separated from book and mounted onto Gaylord pamphlet protector with maroon cloth spine. Black lettering and insignia on front cover. 54 pp. with no illus. Written by William Churchill, the sometime-Consul-General of the US in Samoa and Tonga. Chapters include Parentage of the Jargon; The Art of Breaking English; Grammar of Isolating Speech; Sources and Use of the Vocabulary; and a list of the vocabulary, in dictionary form. With a list of references consulted. Very informative.
Add this copy of Beach La Mar: the Jargon Or Trade Speech of the Western to cart. $52.75, poor condition, Sold by Pistil Books Online rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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Poor. 54 pages, cover is no longer attached to book, fragile binding, light edge wear, scattered foxing. Chapters include Parentage of the jargon, The art of breaking English, Grammar of isolating speech, Sources and use of the vocabulary. The Eden Sermon on page 32. pp. 33 to 54 is a vocabulary list. Signature bound, the back cover is missing, front cover torn and taped.
Add this copy of Beach La Mar: the Jargon Or Trade Speech of the Western to cart. $53.62, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
