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Laistry....i can't even say that. what would you call them in english?" "canadians.
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Laistry....i can't even say that. what would you call them in english?" "canadians.
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We french-canadians belong to one country, canada: canada is for us the whole world: but the english-canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.
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[grandfather] would manufacture funnies with grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. she knew it was only funnies because she would laugh in volumes. 'anna,' he would say, 'i am going to marry that one with the pink hat.' and she would say, 'to whom are you going to marry her?' and he would say, 'to me.' i would laugh very much in the back seat, and she would say to him, 'but you are no priest.' and he would say, 'i am today.' and she would say, 'today you believe in god?' and he would say, 'today i believe in love.
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I read in a newspaper that i was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. i am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. i say this because when i have been in canada, i have never heard a canadian refer to an american as a 'foreigner'. he is just an 'american'. and, in the same way, in the united states, canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'canadians'. that simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.
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Remember the referendum on the charlottetown constitutional accord? the more canada's political and business elites threatened canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more canadians opposed it.
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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that english would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, i should say, because of its barbaric accretions. english swallows up anything that comes its way, makes english out of it.
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The revival of hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which i'm afraid i cannot squeeze into a few sentences. but, let me give you a clue. think about elizabethan english, where the entire english language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. modern hebrew has some things in common with elizabethan english. it is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions. this is not to say that every one of us israeli writers is a william shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to elizabethan english.
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