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You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Learning Language You Up English

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Award India Now Bigger English Been

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Simplicity Same English Word Noun

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

Richard Flanagan

Great People English Who Then Were

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

Michael Hutchence

Love Seem English To Love Press

I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

Music Listening Kind Up English Pop

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

Watkin Tudor Jones

Speak Sometimes Africa English South

I'm rarely singing in English.

Singing English Rarely

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

Writing Believe End Language English

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

Ursula Dubosarsky

Children Language Write See English

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Martin Cruz Smith

Voice American English Aware How

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

Face Beyond Difficulty English Far

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

Process Lost Places Where English

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

Liar You Know English Do You Know

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

Love Say Mean Write Because English

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

Soft Southwest English Almost Accent

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Seeing Acting Patient English Six

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

Thought Teach Chemistry English Knew

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

Rabih Alameddine

I Am Out Narrative English Text Am

When I was younger, I played a lot of upper-class English girls. Then I came to America, and everyone was like, 'She's very believable as trailer trash.'

America Trash She Everyone English

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

Education Happy Me Double English

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.

Pamela Druckerman

American Problem English Books Kids

I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.

Think Fake Now Actor English Far

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

Game Soccer Become Follow English

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