Word: grammars
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...might as well have dunked a croissant in hot vindaloo curry sauce. In much of Europe, Mittal's move was viewed as a rough attempt by "new" India to take on "old" Europe. France's Finance Minister Thierry Breton accused Mittal of having "a grammar problem" and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, declared: "This hostile bid by Mittal Steel calls for a reaction that is at least as hostile." Dollé worked hard to encourage public opposition, dismissing Mittal as a low-grade operator specializing "in buying up obsolete installations at low cost." Mittal himself insists that...
...focus on language is misplaced for two reasons. First of all, while language sheds light on culture, fundamentally it is just a communication tool. One semester in African political systems or African history will provide a much more broad and profound knowledge of Africa than learning basic grammar and vocabulary in Yoruba. It is far more important for the vast majority who know very little about Africa to learn about its particularities, and quickly, which is most easily done in one’s own language...
...theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. He then served briefly as editor of Chicago magazine in the early 1970s—though, by his own account, he was quickly pushed out of the job as retaliation for printing an item that mocked Mayor Richard Daley’s poor grammar. Since then, Wright has turned to the world of books, co-authoring two autobiographies of Luciano Pavarotti.Why did the publishing house reach out to Wright after the secret court came to light in 2002? “I don’t think it could be the gay thing...
...guess there's a lot I don't understand about it. I don't think that any of those people would say, "Don't play with little Sarah next door; she's five, and she doesn't have her verb tenses down yet. No, no, no; wait until her grammar starts improving." But for some reason, if you put that same little girl in a book in first person, there are a certain segment of people who think that literature and fictional literature must be instructional. They liken it to a book of grammar. That's not what...
...paused briefly to gather his thoughts. "But that common-sense message got lost because the school board wrapped it up in so much Afrocentric jargon and education-speak that people thought the board was trying to dumb down the curriculum by teaching bad grammar and syntax. There was enough mangled phraseology in its resolution to make 16 episodes of Martin. But wait, let me get the Kingfish in on this. He's an expert on malapropisms...