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“As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, and slotted into place. That is not how a true native speak, one who is born in...”
“Greek is a wonderfully rich and expressive language, which makes it one of the harder of the European tongues to learn. The active vocabulary is much bigger than other European languages. The const...”
“I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly”
“No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland." The Dr. Roland told me that he thought I ...”
“Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....”
“English is so past,’ she said. ‘Sure, we need people who can write about what we do, but they don’t have to be English graduates. Theology graduates who don’t believe any of it – that would be useful.”
“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.”
