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SHADOWS OF A LITERARY DIALECT: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS IN FIVE ROMANCE LANGUAGES (3).

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From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 20000922
Author:AZEVEDO, MILTON M.

(14.) Use of thou and ye as nonstandard pronouns was a novelist's stock-in-trade to signal alien speech. About half a century earlier H. Rider Haggard had used them in King Solomon's Mines to alert the reader that a character was speaking an African language: "`Great words, my father,' answered the Zulu.... `Thou art right, my father Incubu'" (67). Or in another passage: "`Ye will see, O friends, that I [Alan Quartemain, a hunter] have prepared myself by learning your language'" (115).

(15.) For example: [Pablo]--"`[Spanish open quote] Que tiene usted para justificar su ...

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