Lynne Truss Quotes
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.
Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Profile Books, 2003.
This proverb probably originated during the golden age of Islamic scholarship when the Muslim world preserved and advanced the philosophy and science of the West. Such a value would likely not be espoused today by most Muslim clerics and leaders. Some say that this change is precisely why Islam is deteriorating.
This referendum was passed by the voters as a backlash against the large influx of Hispanics and especially Cubans.
He was one of the authors of the Bi-Lingual Education Act, but the nature of the program changed much from the original intent.
English has become the language that most countries single out as a second language to be taught in their schools if English is not their native language. Europe has always been more active in teaching second or other languages but except in nations where there are two or more languages spoken, English has replaced European languages as the favorite second language. Many of the Latin American states are making English compulsory in elementary school level, , and this statement articulates that trend. Interestingly, Spanish is the United States’ second most spoken and written language, amd is the foreign language most studied in American schools. A large part of the Western Hemisphere is becoming bilingual—English and Spanish;
Stalin was then only 26 years old. This was more than a decade BEFORE the Russian Revolution and Stalin was a young left wing revolutionary planning how to bring about a revolution and how the society should operate thereafter. He was then much the youthful, intellectual, Georgian idealist. The Russian upper class all spoke Russian and usually French and English as well. But the working class only spoke a single language—their native language which was for huge numbers of Russians, not Russian. It was Ukrainian, Georgian, and many others.
He was interviewed by PBS and asked why he introduced and financed California Proposition 227 the severely limited and curtailed bilingual education. Based on his success getting Proposition 227 passed in California, he tried to follow suit with Arizona Proposition 203, Colorado Amendment 31, and Massachusetts Question 2 which were not so successful. The research on Bilingual Education is mixed with some studies showing benefits and others not. Intuitively, the case against it was easier to sell as the objective was to develop English Proficiency and it was hard for many people to understand how that would better be accomplished if other classes were taught in a native language like Spanish. The other side point out that students who come the the United States very competent in Mathematics, Science and History get thrown into English speaking classes in those subjects and the fall behind very quickly. By the time their English is sufficient to take instruction in English, they have already failed the courses in which they used to be good and have to take them again if they are still in school which is rare since the lack of English skills causes them to fail all subjects if a Bilingual program is not available for their math, science, and history courses. Both sides of the argument have a point, but in many anti-Bilingual campaigns, the educational arguments gets lost and the issue becomes whether or not America should be an English speaking country, and Hispanic chauvinism and anti Hispanic racism end up driving much of the debate.
Lynne Truss is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. She is arguably best known for her championing of correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her popular and widely discussed 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented.
