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"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."
"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
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