Thursday, September 2, 2010

Topic: English


Do you know the name of the book from which the following quotes were taken?

“…the globalization of English and English literature, law, money and values, is the cultural revolution of my generation.” P. 5. ………. “…the world wide dialect of the third millennium.” Jean-Paul Nerriere. P. 11. ………. “It argues that Anglo-American culture and its language have become as much a part of global consciousness as MS-Dos or the combustion Engine.” P. 14. ………. “You could say that English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution.” P. 14. ……….. “To put it another way, every language becomes a vessel for thought and behavior. So English is like a virus that has spread round the world, carrying with it a way of looking at and expressing new experiences.” ………. “There are, it has been estimated, some 175,000 new blogs created every day.” P. 17. ………. “As I write, Google is just celebrating its one trillionth web site.” P. 17. ………. “…the English language has always been to adapt itself, like mercury, to every new contour.” P. 18. ……….. Penelope Lively: “We are waking lexicons…in a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.” P. 19.

The name of the book from which these quotes were taken will appear in the next Books and Ideas blog.

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