“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”
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“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
Preface
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
Stated at a press conference (April 4, 1935); reported in Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 60. Sherwood says, "The reports of this conference quoted Hopkins as saying that 'the people are too damned dumb', and this phrase was given plenty of circulation in the press" (p. 61). He adds in a footnote that "it will be seen from the transcript of his remarks that this particular statement was directed not at the people but at the critical orators" (p. 938). Also reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 48-49; Boller and George also note that the quote was quickly misreported as "The people are too damn dumb to understand".
“If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.”
As quoted in * http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2005-11-15-voa1-83125067/117153.html
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Arditti
"Introduction to 'We're Losing Contact, Captain'" (p.353)
There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)
Derrida Jacques, Elisabeth Weber (1995), Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994. p. 115
As quoted in Топ-10 самых скандальных и оскорбительных высказываний Лукашенко http://europeanbelarus.org/be/news/2012/2/24/3941/ // Civil campaign European Belarus, europeanbelarus.org (in Russian)
“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”
Source: Princess in Waiting
“The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.”
[31 December 2004, http://whedonesque.com/comments/5677, "David Greenwalt's 'Profit' coming to DVD in 2005", Whedonesque.com, 2008-08-29]