“Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English”
George Bernard Shaw
“The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax”
Thomas Paine
“When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, "What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language”
Leonard I. Sweet
“Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language”
Oscar Wilde
“The kind of high-decibel extreme emotion, even the language that a lot of Cuban Americans used about the Elian case turned off a lot of people,”
Richard Nuccio
“Americans are way behind in studying Mandarin Chinese. The language is so hard that many students give up.”
Ben Lawson
“It's translated into about a dozen languages, ... but there has never been an American comic book that has made a dent in the Japanese market.”
Stan Sakai
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