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Why Can't the English?...

Why Can't the English?...
This song is part of the My Fair Lady Musical Soundtrack, 1956. The song was played and interpreted by the character of Henry in My Fair Lady.

This song is dedicated to the insanity of some people who criticize others for the way that they speak and how they despise their accents or their "dialects", so as to call them.

Languages were not meant to belong to a select few, to a specific clan of intellectuals, and or to a pedantic elite of rich men, rather, all languages belong to everyone and to all kinds of people in a global society, regardless of the way they dress, whatever it is they sport, whatever their job is, or whatever salary they earn.

It is absurd to be a "Language Dictator" in modern times, most especially when it is already proven that in about 500 years or so, most, if not all of the current languages will most likely disappear or will be "transformed" into some sort of... (Continues)
Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters,
(Continues)
Contributed by Josephine Manuelle 2014/11/8 - 12:07




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