As Arthur Schlesinger has put it, "The language of the new nation, its laws, its institutions, its political ideas, its literature, its customs, its precepts, its prayers, primarily derived from Britain".
The extension of government activity inevitably brought with it the Turkish language, as it was the language of government.
This is not the Jeffersonian language of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," with its allusions to the Enlightenment, nor is it the language of the Bill of Rights, which limits government power.
As the People's Daily article put it: "The language environment of the grassroots, with its special characteristics, is different from that of the [Communist] party and government officials".
And it practically is -- it's the language of fans.
Roden calls it "the language of women's secrets".
Is it the language that makes one Russian?
For all the efforts of purists like Johnson to defend it, the language is incomparably flexible.
The language of gamers is, when you begin to decipher it, the language of strivers.
In other words, Ambac felt comfortable to ignore it because it the language was commonly appearing in documents.
