"It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living."

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

— George Bernard Shaw