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But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

Understand English One thing Englishman Who talk
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

English Draw Line Blur
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Na person wey never see problem dey use English dey pray.

Pray Problem Person Never
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That is probably the biggest issue about the English game. You need to be a great player and great at striking the ball, of course, but it's also about your head and being able to understand the game, especially for a midfielder.

Able About Also Ball
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Solid Break Feel Term
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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You cannot sing African music in proper English
Sing Music Africa Proper
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

Class English Filled Forward
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

People Musical Comedy English
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Among Bed English Excited
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

American Blind Food Leading
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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Along Beer Day Discover
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Believe Coming Decades English
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

English Find Like Look
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

About Am Been Comfortable
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Alone Call English Make
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And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Agreed Anyway Because Change
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

English English Language Government Help
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Always Been Brought Chemistry
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Hard Sex Unattractive.
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Admired Ambition American Average Boyfriend
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

English Incompetence Sincerity
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Am Could English English Language
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I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Ignorant Learning Subject Psychology
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

Ask Dog English Even
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Blah Crazy Each English
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Day English Every Every Day
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I speak two languages, Body and English.

Speak Two Languages Body
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

About Baseball English Italian
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Because Detailed English EnglishTeacher
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My English is very bad.
English Bad
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

About Affairs Am Concern
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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.
America Better Come English
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

Decide English First Had
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I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

American Cultures Different Different Cultures
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In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.

Challenging Different Double English
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I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

Always Eating English Food
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I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

Able Album Another Artists
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