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"It's hard to measure the scale of his disruption … For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow's political culture by demolishing yesterday's, Donald Trump is Time's 2016 person of the year".
TIME already named Trump Person of the Year back in 2016, for "reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow's political culture by demolishing yesterday's," the magazine's then-head Nancy Gibbs wrote.
Then, just as arbitrarily, they are told they can speak it for the time being.
Despite his slave origin, Bajkam was educated in Arabic (although he reportedly did not speak it for fear of making mistakes), respected by intellectuals and was known to seek the company of such men as al-Suli and the physician Sinan ibn Thabit.
Hell, the dozens of languages and dialects that fall under "Chinese" don't necessarily overlap with Mandarin, so even if you do manage to pick out a Chinese person, there's still no guarantee they speak it (for example, my family's native tongues are Hakka, Hainanese and Cantonese).
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If today I speak, it is for her sake.
He spoke, it emerged, for all.
They spoke it to me for years.
American Pie didn't betray it's generation, it spoke for it.
"At the end I could speak for it, for the sadness," he explained to Dave Eggers.
Constituencies of many stripes, and in many funny hats, have asserted some claim or another to speak for it, or to have it speak for them.
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