Words
(CECIL HULL'S talk on "The Romance of Words," exiled from 3YA to 3YL last week by the intervention of the United Nations, carried one with rather confusing swiftness from one branch of its enormous subject to another; but it succeeded in creating the right picture in the listener’s mind-that of language as a vast living and growing thing, spread out through time and space, and registering in its successive changes, trends and developments , successive deposits of human habit and imagination; the way in. which men have laid down new societies, lived in new lands, encountered new peoples, used new tools, believed in (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) new gods and spoken of all these. As an interesting deduction from all this, the talk concluded with a brisk assault on the apostles of phonetic spelling, who see the written word simply as a representation of sound and would by theirs phonetic standardisation flatten out and destroy the very inconsistencies of spelling which register the history of words and language, and can, by the stimulus their oddity affords to the inquiring mind, bring words to a life they could never enjoy as mere sound,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 345, 1 February 1946, Page 8
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