The occasional use of dialect spices things up nicely.
"You can be interested in slang or dialect or things that people call ungrammatical but still think that there is a formal way of speech," said Mr. Sheidlower, who has something impish about him that is reminiscent of a young Michael Palin.
Minnie Driver, as the Italian diva upstaged by Christine and the Phantom, tries a bit of dialect humor, saying things like "'Ee lava me!" and "I 'ate my 'at!" as if she were auditioning for a part in the next Super Mario video game.
That's how I ate lunch: learning the dialect for the next thing.
"I needed to capture his South Philly dialect, but the main thing I needed to capture was his spirit.
But if dialect is not your thing, there's always John Eisenberg's "From 33rd Street to Camden Yards: An Oral History of the Baltimore Orioles," which Chip Silverman presented to his pal (and co-owner of the Orioles) Barry Levinson.
Take this thing with Kansai dialect.
Since general reason has failed to convince them, the Walk-Out strategy suggests that the Resistance stop trying to convince Republicans to do the right thing in a dialect of ethics, and consider speaking in a language that Congressional Republicans can understand: money and markets.
At home, or in whatever room was currently home, the only book was the Bible, but there were his mother's stories, and also the Jamaican poems ("Anancy stories, a bit of reggae and ska, dialect poets, that sort of thing") she used to recite, that she'd learnt at school.
There are several more manifestos in the anthology – rallying cries for (among other things) poetical drama, dialect, political commitment, translation and eco-mindedness.
