LANGUAGE OF THE DAY
Sir-A new serial "Mr. Thunder" has begtin from 3YA in the For My Lady session. It deals with the time of Judge Jeffries, towards. the, end of the 17th Century,. Yet one of the characters in to-day’s episode re against "living all my life in this dump." Dump? In the 17th Century? /Surely not! The expression "on my own" is also. used. While I am aware that light sensation _is the primary consideration in many of these "historical" serials, yet ‘the blunder of using present-day slang is surely a clumsy one, and jars upon the _listener’ who .is being asked to cast his mind back to events of long ago. It is just one’ of those silly annoyances that can so easily be avoided.
IRISH
STEW
(North Canterbury).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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132LANGUAGE OF THE DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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