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The english have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

-George Bernard Shaw

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The English Have No Respect For Their

George Bernard Shaw

The english have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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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.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. they don't teach you how to love somebody. they don't teach you how to be famous. they don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. they don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. they don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. they don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. they don't teach you anything worth knowing.

The english have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. they spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.it isimpossible foran englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other englishman hate or despise him.

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.

Dare i speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? dare i speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? language is also a place of struggle. the oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. language is also a place of struggle.

I believe it is essential to have english as the official language of our national government, for the english language is the tie that binds the millions of immigrants who come to america from divergent backgrounds. we should, and do, encourage immigrants to maintain and share their traditions, customs and religions, but the use of english is essential for immigrants and their children to participate fully in american society and achieve the american dream.

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