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Pub talk and the king's english

1.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.(Animals and birds are not capable of conversation.)
2.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.
. 3. 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.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. The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.
6. 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 by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the、rulers.
8.The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.
9. The phrase,the King’s English,has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people.
10. There still exists in the working people,as in the early Saxon peasants,a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.
11. 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.For example,the word “dog” is a symbol representing a kind of animal.We mustn’t regard the word “dog” as being the animal itself.
12. Even the most educated and literate people do not use standard,formal English all the time in their conversation.

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