However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
The English language is not always the President's friend.
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
I have enough trouble just speaking normal Australian. On 'Vikings,' we had a great vocal coach who helped make all of us sound the same. But I'm very bad at accents, to be honest.
If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speaks German and a president who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that's primarily Spanish.
Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.
I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.
There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China, trying to play these games, I just wanted the text to go away.
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.
There is no linguistic war in Montreal.
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
