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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD... IN OTHER WORDS

From an interview when Chace was in his 80s, for the original Whole Earth Catalog in the Sixties
"I wrote it about 1940. ... It was in the days of rationing during the war and I thought about what would happen if we had to ration language. If our vocabulary were cut in half, we'd have to get along with other words."
Professor Chace used the story to show his French classes the importance of intonation in language. "...if you read [the words] with the proper intonation, the meaning appears for certain people. For other people the meaning never does appear."
"People who like it best are language people, teachers, lawyers and doctors. That's almost all the people who are interested in it. And children, strange to say. I've had a lot of letters from them."

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