The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic … - Stephen Leacock

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When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

Stephen Leacock

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

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