The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25

| 100 much. dear, too much y on ought
10 get II for tire
Got whAt7-
Anything for which they AK 'cinqus
cinquante That's lot 81 money But
talking 81 the fact thar tho Italian is not
dared when you address him IN his own
tongue. have you noticed how important
it IL that Il you DO speak 10 any European
in his own language Won speak correctly
or almost SOP
Il have. In cosmopolitan New York
We are 81 accist omed 20 hearing broken
English that Il makes no difference 10 Va
how our language Il nAngled We under
stand H. 'Not iss divercns init dot
mongey und dot CAD does not puzzle
us any more than 'Cristoforo Colombo ia
smarta mana disCov d'Americ'. But time
and time again | have been compelled 20
rVpeat an entire sentence 20 a befuddled
German because ! had JpIt the advcrb
in tho wrong place. The Frenchmen ara
quite az bad and the Italians are utterly
hoJseless. The last never underSt and
anything unless YOU uss precisely the
words they would ure themselves. Not
only do the charming Europeans fail 10
understa and you when y0,i do not gp' tho
words in the light order or when you
speak unidiomai ically hut la simple truth
they don't seem able oven ~ discover
what you are talking about. One would
think that they ought by This time 10 I've
familiar enough with stumbling delivery
Il their languages TO understand IL
readily
NO said the man musingly. that has
no, come yet You see those who have
svada even tho attemp, by speaking
English They rest upon that profound
principle embodied in the notice not long
ago posted in a certain Paris hotel:
PtE,sT srE.N FSGrisH TO nv wAIrERs
rHEI 10 SOr USukssrAND ANEEiCAN YRENCH
-Of course thai roads as II il were
witty hut the truth Is il il nothing more
or less than n confession Of the universal
inability 10 understand their own Ian
g,iag~ unless il IL correctly spoken. 4
fine time one Of these highbrows would
have officiating a. Third avenue police
man
And tho swiftness with which they
speak There IL a popular fallacy that
fpr,i gncrs do not speak their own Ian
IrIages any faster than We spsak ours. I
but that their utt"rance merely sounds
fast 10 ~ because We are unaCC1istomed
to th" language That might have been I
true for ma when ! first spoke a foreign /
language but n II rot true now And I
still find that the French and the ltal- /
ians speak much faster than We do /
a FrcnchmAn admitted IL
- me not n month past
Yes. and I'm going to add something |
to that statement The excellent land
lord ~ IN" Hotel de- Paris NJ Rouen il
going To got free advertisement right
here hecausa hc j. tho only man ! ever
mot in all Europe who would speak more
slowly whom hr found that did not under
stand what h. was saying He did It,
and without being asked In doing this
10 displayed AN order ~ intelligence
,vs Ich never met in any other European
and him therefore sing What m"
French and Italians do when you fail
o understand II always the sam" First
hey sr.ak ~ much faster NJ they possibly
'an. Then they begin To hurl emphasis
Ipon every syllabl. Then they make
he phrase sound like a single word
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