 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Mr Jack Alexander, in a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, remarked that the Americans commit felonious assault on the language, and said: 'I really don't think that the British, in their hearts, forgive us for this, and I don't know why they should. It is their language and we have done it wrong.' There is something in this, but, for my own part, it is not the American modifications of the English language which annoy me. I find much American speech very pleasant to listen to, and much of the slang refreshingly expressive. But I wish they would frankly call it American, and not English. I should not mind being told that I do not talk American very well.
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Rprrinted in : Can Americans and Britons be friends? In: Saturday Evening Post, 3 June 1944.
Reprinted in: Bertrand Russell's America; His transatlantic travels and writings, v.1:1896-1945, a documented account by B. Feinberg and R. Kasrils. London; G. Allen & Unwin, 1973, pp.328-337
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