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Old 07-02-2009, 04:32 PM   #16
sEe

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^ what a beautiful clip. And just think kids: once upon a time, long ago and far away, language was used like this:

"He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded. There was something about the boy, a nervousness, a tenderness an uncertainty and I didn't understand... I didn't understand why this boy who wrote poetry didn't seem able to do anything else. He lost evey job. He came to me for help, but I didn't know then. I didn't know anything except that I loved him unendearably. At night I pretended to sleep, but I heard him crying... crying.... crying the way a lost child cries."
It's funny that you mention this. I was just watching an old Dick Cavett/Kathryn Hepburn interview from the 1970s in which she (Ms. Hepburn) bemoaned the decline of elocution. She mentioned how speech courses has been required during her youth and how speaking properly was by then already seen as a relic of the older generation.

I have to admit, there are times on the subway when I have a difficult time understanding people nominally speaking english around me.
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