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Re: Sustenance - what does it mean?
Jakob Norstedt-Moberg 2007-Sep-04 18:23:00
--- In #removed#, "Richard Crowest" <rcrowest@...> wrote:
> And it's one of the joys - or miseries - of the English language
that it is so
> open to interpretation, to imagery and symbolism. Samuel Beckett
once wrote that he
> preferred writing in French to English, because if he used the
French equivalent of "oaken"
> it meant simply "made of oak", but in English it immediately carried
overtones of solidity,
> trustworthiness, strength, integrity, etc.
I don't think one language is much different from another in this
respect. It is just that you master your mother tongue so much better
than any language you learn at school or as an adult.
Jakob