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PAGE PAGE 4 Pub Talk and the King’s English Paraphrase And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view. In a conversationw e should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument. Infact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not to win or force others to accept his point of view. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives. The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong. These animals are called cattle when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef. The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers. The English language received proper recognition and was used by the king once more. The phrase, the King’s English, has always been used disparagingly and jokingly by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people. There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent Marrakech III Paraphrase The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people int he colonies like animals (by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings). They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead. Sitting with his legs cros