[linganth] Language styles

[Elizabeth Coville]

Dear Linganth list,

Here's a nice quote from an article in the New York Times
entitled (in my upper midwest print version)
"The U.N. State of Mind: It's a Small World.  Slow, Too."
by Felicity Barringer (p. YT 17), although I notice that the online
version has a different title:

"Outside, there is cacophony.  Inside, there is calm . . . Outside, when
people mean something, they underline it with a brief expletive.  Inside,
when people mean something, translators must repeat it in six different
languages before it is official."

For complete article, see

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/nyregion/17NATI.html

Cheers,
Liz
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