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O Citizens’ Forum sheepdog has ever, I feel, been vouchsafed a brighter set of charges than J. P. Macaskill in the recent 2ZB discussion "Is Slang Permissible?" There were Mrs. K. McLeod, of the Victoria College English Department, Anton Vogt, and Michael Forlong, all brimful of ideas on the subject and bursting to express them, in the vernacular if necessary. There was a refreshing amount of difference of opinion, mostly from Mrs. McLeod, whose uncompromising, "I don’t agree with you at all,’ was removed from the parliamentary only by the absence of ‘colloquialism in its expression. I hate to think how we'd have got. on without Mrs. McLeod-as it was we got both sides of almost everything. J. P. Macaskill was perhaps a trifle over-zealous in the performance of his canine role,
and ‘showed a tendency to head off any ‘sheep that strayed from the straight and narrow no matter how enticing the path up which it might have led the others. But since his shepherding always provided the occasion for an arresting display of slanguistic virtuosity I could not altogether condemn its excessive efficiency,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 517, 20 May 1949, Page 10
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