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Taiwan s Language Diversity in Danger of Erosion - The Good Men Project

Taiwan s Language Diversity in Danger of Erosion - The Good Men Project
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Taiwan s language diversity in danger of erosion

Taiwan s language diversity in danger of erosion
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Tongue twisters

Illustration by W. Vasconcelos A CERTAIN genre of books about English extols the language s supposed difficulty and idiosyncrasy. “Crazy English”, by an American folk-linguist, Richard Lederer, asks “how is it that your nose can run and your feet can smell?”. Bill Bryson s “Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way” says that “English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner…Imagine being a foreigner and having to learn that in English one tells a lie but the truth.” Such books are usually harmless, if slightly fact-challenged. You tell “a” lie but “the” truth in many languages, partly because many lies exist but truth is rather more definite. It may be natural to think that your own tongue is complex and mysterious. But English is pretty simple: verbs hardly conjugate; nouns pluralise easily (just add “s”, mostly) and there are no genders to remember.

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