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But some very clever comparative linguists, beginning in Germany in the 19th century, theorized about how the nature of the ancestors of the more modern tongues.
Anticipating our contemporary Plain English laws, strong voices were raised in the 17th century against the use of foreign tongues as a kind of black art to mystify the uneducated and cheat them of their rights.
In the section headed The House we find Iron the lace with great care, Mangle all these clothes, We need charcoal for the iron today, I want you to buy four sheep's tongues , and--how colonial-- I want also two cucumbers, for afternoon tea!
The Darger watercolors on exhibit include both peacetime tableaux of tiny lassies, some naked, some in dresses, disporting themselves among butterflies and enormous flowers and odd little birds--and scenes of maniacal carnage, in which the same tiny lassies are strangled naked (distorted faces, tongues stuck out) and disemboweled by merciless Glandelinians.
Older Taiwanese are usually bilingual, but the tongues are their native Taiwanese and Japanese, a result of the fifty years (1895-1945) Japan ruled the island.