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The english are the people of consummate cant.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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The English Are The People Of Consummate

Friedrich Nietzsche

The english are the people of consummate cant.

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... where the greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

Just take me with you. please. i cant. please, papa. i cant. i cant hold my son dead in my arms. i thought i could but i cant.

The english are a nation of consummate cant.

Malcolm bradbury made the point, and i don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real english at the moment is not the english spoken in england or in america or even in canada or australia or new zealand. the real english is the english which is a second language, so that it's rather like latin in the days of the roman empire when people had their own languages, but had latin in order to communicate.

My fitness trainer's english, my physio's english, some of my friends are english. i don't have a problem with english people at all.

I have a funny relationship to language. when i came to california when i was three i spoke urdu fluently and i didn't speak a word of english. within a few months i lost all my urdu and spoke only english and then i learned urdu all over again when i was nine. urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my english and it's sort of become my third language. english is my best language but was the second language i learned.

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