Vicious Spiral
HOSE radio fans who weekly count their blessings must include among them 2YA’s recent Evening with Victor Borge. Victor Borge I knew as the Punctuation Man, but I was completely ignorant of the fact that he is a classical pianist of considerable note. The information still leaves me cold. The real joy of Wednesday’s programme was the revelation that Borge’s inventive genius did not stop short at Phonetic Punctuation, ‘but leapt on to greater heights with his discovery of Inflationary. Language. The idea is (roughly) that language should keep relative step with currency, though naturally not to the point of debasement, and to illustrate his theory Mr. Borge told us a fascinating story of a Lieuelevenant in the A.A.F., a fifthright young man passionninely in love with a twoderful girl, three assiduously protected by her one-and-a-half brother. Its onomatopoeic value is, to be sure, nothing compared with that of Phonetic Spelling, and at first hearing it is as hard on the ear as basic English, but it has a wild logic ebout it that cannot fail to make its
appeal to the modern mind,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 11
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188Vicious Spiral New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 11
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