Re: "English Only" statements

Ken Derry (kderry@epas.utoronto.ca)
Sat, 2 Dec 1995 10:07:30 -0500

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I started reading James Boon's _Other Tribes, Other Scribes_ the other
day, and came across an interesting quote from Mark Twain. Twain
apparently liked to append "scraps of literature" to his chapter headings
which he set "in a vast number of tongues." These "tongues" were left
untranslated, he explains, because "very few foreign nations among whom
the book will circulate can read in any language but their own; whereas
we do not write for a particular class or sect or nation, but to take in
the whole world."

Ken Derry
kderry@epas.utoronto.ca

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