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«I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
American language, dictator, dishes, pronounce, public education, recipes, take place, The Americans, threatened
«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Comedy,
Funny,
Language,
Travel
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abroad, Americans, American language, despite, discover, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, for the first time, languages, progress, shocked, spoken language, The Last, travel
«The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.»
«The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
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American Constitution, American language, constitutions, construct, constructs, define, grammar, grammars, parts of speech, part of speech, practically, syntax, The American
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