 | David Crystal - 2002 - 212 σελίδες
...years ago? There is no tracing the connection of ancient languages, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Some of his vocabulary is unpalatable nowadays, but his final observation is unassailable. Languages... | |
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 300 σελίδες
...speakers is in the unsafe zone. This leaves 600, or 10% of the current total, in the safe category. 'I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations', said the eighteenth-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson,24 Johnson's concern is unusual. More people... | |
 | Richard Nash - 2003 - 238 σελίδες
...years ago? There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations" (5:224-25). Over and over again, Johnson encounters Highlanders who support the claims of MacPherson,... | |
 | R. Blench - 2006 - 392 σελίδες
...1984 [1785]). There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because...people; that is to say, if you find the languages are a good deal the same; for a word here and there the same will not do. (Johnson, quoted in Boswell... | |
 | Roland Sussex, Paul Cubberley - 2006
...language perhaps not wholly pure or intact, but preserved - would approve of a remark of Samuel Johnson: I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. (Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1776) Table 10.11. Dialects of Slovak Phonology Vowels... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 σελίδες
...only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly . " -Oscar Wilde (#856) August 28th, 2000 "I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations . " -Samuel Johnson (#857) August 29th, 2000 "Nobody knows . Everybody thinks... | |
 | 124 σελίδες
...58. Language There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. - Samuel Johnson The curve of a river, and the ups and downs of a sweet spring, The proud dance of... | |
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There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that... 
