Not exact matches
I was
trying to acknowledge someone's complaint about the strong
language while at the
same time explaining that it is only another way to
speak that might require a small effort to translate.
For a long time, thinking he is the
same as other men, he will
try to see as they do, to
speak their
language, to find contentment in the joys with which they are satisfied.
Some like John Jay
tried all at once the strategies of ignoring, overwhelming and inventing when he claimed that the emerging republic was «one connected country» and «one united people — a people descended from the
same ancestors,
speaking the
same language, professing the
same religion, attached to the
same principles of government, very similar in manners and customs.»
Unless you were raised in the
same area and
speak the
same languages, don't
try to strike up a conversation with someone in their native tongue if you aren't a native speaker.
Students mingle,
speaking in the target
language,
trying to find their twin (the only other student with all 5 of the
same pictures, but in a different order).
So, to make sure we are all
speaking the
same language, let me define a few terms that Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I have used for a long time now, and I will
try to use in this discussion.
What got me most was the magic of feeling I was listening in on conversations between color groupings — how the reds and blues seemed to be
speaking (or perhaps singing) in slightly different dialects of the
same paint
language, some mute or just whispering, other maniacally chatty, muttering or even yelling bloody murder — all which keeps your eye moving back and forth
trying to figure out what it all means.»