Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00059 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00059
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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SPEECH dictionaries which leave me completely baffled. I'm not sure whether I am just stubborn by nature and have refused, through sheer perversity, to mem- orize all those amazing hieroglyphics, or if it is that I am merely lazy and have never taken the trouble to learn them. Anyway, why do things the hard way? There are dictionaries with a minimum of diacritical symbols—and learning the simpler ones will not tax anyone. The Funk & Wagnalls New College Standard Dictionary, for instance, indicates pronunciations by a simple spelling of the words the way they sound. No longer should innocent little children be taught to read, "A dog bit a man," when the sound of the indefinite article "A" is authoritatively given its rightful pronunciation as a short, unobtrusive uh. No more, "The cat ran up the tree," when it is actually, "Thuh cat ran up thuh tree," in correct English speech. I like the way they treat such words as garage. They give the first syllable as a short, quick "guh" and throw the whole stress and feel of the word into the "rahzh." You will find this new dictionary much easier to understand. You will like the way they indicate emphasis by underlining the syllable to be stressed. In words where there is a secondary emphasis, 33