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...upset her grandfather.“I feel like that would hurt him, so I’m going to refrain from doing it,” Geng says.Susan Y. Yao ’09 says she understands the benefits of marrying someone who shares her cultural traditions and language??but thinks that is often an impractical goal. For instance, she would have to restrict her romantic options to fluent speakers of both Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese, she says. For Hartl, dating a Chinese woman means being one of the few whites at her Chinese Student Association gatherings...
...particularly elegant passage, Shell explicates how the concepts of “barbarian” (meaning ‘a person who does not speak our language??) and “stutterer” (indicating ‘a person who does not speak our language our way’) converged in the hexametrical proclamation of the Visigoth Aleric as he stood outside the gates of Rome...
...good, he’s had no such luck. The Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks vernacular trends, last month enshrined “intrinsic aptitude” as number two on a list of the 10 “most egregious examples of politically correct language?...
...know that it is easy to get frustrated with a language?? especially with one that did not have the foresight to include the word “frustration” itself (any student of Russian history knows it is a fairly important word). But I remind myself that Russian isn’t as bad as Mandarin, for example, which has a writing system divorced from its spoken language. That is like having the text of “Fiddler on the Roof” sung to “Cats.” It makes no sense...
Owain, who is the host of a daily Welsh radio show, attributes his language??s success to the fierce nationalism and pride of his people. He and his friends could spout the names of medieval Welsh princes like they were modern football stars, and their passion for Welsh history strengthened their commitment to the preservation of the language...