Znani o języku angielskim, cz. 1

Cała prawda o języku angielskim zawarta w zaskakujących i zabawnych wypowiedziach jego sławnych użytkowników.

• English: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.

James Nicol

• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Alexander Woollcott

• I speak twelve languages. English is the bestest.

Stefan Bergman

• Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

• When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

• English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Bill Bryson
 

• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston Churchill

Glossary:

• lurk – czaić się
• rifle through – grzebać w czymś
• prig – skromniś

A co Wy sądzicie o języku angielskim?

Zobacz także:
Czy wiesz, że… – język angielski bez tajemnic
Angielskie zwroty, które wypada znać
How to be an Alien, czyli stereotypowy Brytyjczyk, cz. 3 (język angielski w opinii George’a Mikesa)
Słynne cytaty – Sir Winston Churchill