Just as Coleridge and Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" had discarded the formality and cadence of the Augustan poets, so Hazlitt rejected the exact and measured language of Sir Thomas Browne and Samuel Johnson, fashioning a prose whose emotional and political intensity colored everything he wrote.
Use respectful language, like "Yes, sir" and "No, sir".
Songs include No I Can't Put You Through To My Supervisor and Don't Use Language Like That Sir. Unusually, this album won't be sold in shops.
"Criticism that we charge into countries without understanding the history or the culture or with any serious plans as to how to address the problems of those countries is another input into the need for taking language seriously," said Sir Adam Roberts, senior research fellow in international relations at Oxford University.
At the same time, a collieshangie (some call it a controversy) broke out over the National Theatre of Scotland's refusal to stage classic works of Scots-language drama – particularly, Sir David Lyndsay's 1540 play, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Brian writes of "the National Theatre of Scotland's refusal to stage classic works of Scots-language drama – particularly, Sir David Lyndsay's 1540 play, Ane [Pleasant] Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis", and quotes the cringe-inducing self-hatred of a Scottish Tory who calls Scots "a collection of regional dialects of the English language".
Emerging protectionism, to coin a phrase.Ranko Bon Motovun, CroatiaThe Arabic language* SIR – Having spent several years working with youth in the Arab world, I took great interest in your article on the tension between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), dialectical Arabic and foreign languages in the public sphere ("A God-given way to communicate", April 24th).
Oh, no, sir, the language they understand is much harsher than that.
Instructors drilled him on the language of customer service: "sir" instead of "dude," "you're welcome" instead of "it's cool".
Objects so protected need to meet at least one of what are called, in splendidly Sir Humphreyesque language, the Waverley Criteria.
