Ｎｏ．１５５６　　Angels Talk. (１４): 本質創造・本質文明　(勝手にユートピア)

2010年01月08日

Ｎｏ．１５５６　　Angels Talk. (１４)

Angels Talk. language 言葉 English 英語

　　Angels are talking about their English, having a pleasant stroll over Hyde Park.

　　‘As English is not our mother tongue, we often make various kinds of careless and grammatical mistakes, and what’s more, our English tends to be a queer mixture of British and American, formal and informal, and literary and colloquial English without ourselves noticing that. So I now humbly would like to proclaim our English “International (broken) mixed-up English” and would also like to request hesitatingly that it should be considered as one of the various Englishes of the modern world.’
　　‘Well, I’d rather demand that outright! ’
　　‘Oh, no, that’s too much to ask of them. What we should do is to ask them to have broad-minded tolerance for our English.’
　　‘Yes, you are quite right. And we should do our best to improve our use of English language little by little, or their tolerance may run out in no time.’
　　‘And at the same time, we need to be extra careful not to let our Celestial Language become too rusty.’
　　‘Yes, a hundred times, Yes! ’