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...“And then the coronavirus hit, and we threw all that out the door,” Prof Galloway says. “We recorded our first episode the day before it aired.”...
...A world in which we all communicate through translation apps may, eventually, be more efficient — imagine all those who have to talk English to us today being able to speak their native tongues....
...We live in an era of great and growing migration, but we do have the advantage of knowing the long-term linguistic effects of such movements in Europe’s past....
...“Would that we were back in the halcyon days of, ‘We are all going to get a job and it’s all going to be fine,’” she says. “That’s just not the case any more....
...At estates like Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire, ostlers would retire to their lodgings in stables almost as fine as the house, if a tad more pungent....
...In his book The Last Lingua Franca, Nicholas Ostler writes that in 100AD a traveller could go from Spain to the Hindu Kush speaking Greek all the way....
...“Essentially, what we regard as ‘pristine’ ecosystems are in fact ‘degraded’ ecosystems,” Stimpson says....
...At least we know what they meant. Ostler argues that machine translation is improving, although it does struggle with nuance and figurative language....
...If we imagine that the supremacy of English will endure forever, says Ostler, we are guilty of both “memory failure” and a “signal lack of imagination”....
...First we had Her Majesty’s assault on the Derby....
...Catherine Ostler is the editor of Tatler...
...“We worked tooth and nail for this contract and, when Atradius pulled out, we had to cancel the contract. Our oxygen is being totally cut off.”...
...Contributions to this field are sometimes historical (Melvyn Bragg’s The Adventure of English) or more concerned with philology (Nicholas Ostler’s brilliant Empires of the Word)....
...“We own three properties, all of which have mortgages,” says Ostler. “When my wife and I moved out of our first London house it only had a small mortgage on it....
...This will reduce the administrative burden on many of our policyholders and HMRC,” said Kelly Ostler, a spokeswoman for the Association of British Insurers....
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