Many professors would not accept papers with erasures, and trying to delicately erase a wrong letter and type over it was akin to attempting brain surgery. Now, Professor Bruner is proud of Spanish, and no doubt believes it to be a language of great precision, style, and grace, as indeed it is. Spanish hasn't changed much since the time of Queen Elizabeth I, and any Spanish-speaker today can read Don Quixote with complete comprehension and appreciation. It is an important language, Conan thinks, only because so many people speak it. English has millions of speakers too, but it also has authority and importance because inventions and discoveries are being articulated first by native speakers of English.
Some English words have fascinating origins.
In the papacy of Pius I, in the fifteenth century, many clergymen, who were about the only people who could read and write, died of the plague in England. The pope was obliged to appoint replacements, many of whom could not read and write, but who were nevertheless good men who tried their best. When the new priests said the Latin mass, they had to wing it. Conan Email me now , and I will put a response in writing lickety-split.