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English Sketches From Life
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You have to
marvel at the
unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns
down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an
alarm
clock goes off by going on.
English was
invented by people,
not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which,
of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out,
they
are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why,
when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up my essay, I
end
it.
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