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Unit 1 Pub Talk and the King's English
1. And it is an activity only of humans. (para 1)
Conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.
2. Conversation is not for making a point. (para 2)
Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.
3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. (para 2)
In fact ,a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view.
4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other's lives. (para 3)
People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives.
5. it could still go ignorantly on (para 6)
The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.
6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf). (para 9)
These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields; but when we sit down at the table to eat , we call their meat beef.
7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language. (para11)
The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.
8. English had come royally into its own. (para 13)
The English language received proper recognition and became an official language.
9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. (para 15)
The phrase "the King's English" has always been used disparagingly or jokingly by the lower classes.
10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. (para 15)
There still exists in the working people a spirit of opposition to the cultural control of the ruling class.
11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that "words will harden into things for us. " (para 16)
There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.