Primitive Lanquage
Keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme. TOW who would have thought that after all these years that word used by Poe to create an atmosphere of magic and mystery should father some real meaning to it? But having listened to Professor Arnold Wall’s talks on Byways of Language I look out on the world of Runes, knowing their origin in Scandinavian letters and their one-time magical associations. Professor Wall, himself a poet, threw an unexpected cup of cold water on proceedings when he said that we were finished with all that superstitious nonsense. In a later talk on the Pidgin English of the Pacific, which sounds very humorous to our ears with "Pana on top," meaning Our, Heayenly Father, the Professor gave the talk an unusual turn by showing that a language 4s simple in its origins might develop into something good in the same way as Spanish, Italian and French grew out of a mixture of Latin and the ruling nativé tonoeves of Aan éarlier time.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 26
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