GENERAL CABLES.
AMERICAN SLANG. ?OEXICAL &3TD PICTUBESQTTE. LOS ANGELES, August 29. j In an interview to-day Dr. Hanorf, 'rofessor of Languages in the University f Copenhagen, who is now visiting Los Ingeles, declared that Americans had elegated the old English language to he background, and had substituted a inguage of their own, which was unique a its brevity. "The so-called slang in use in tho Jnited States is," asserted the doctor, far more poetical, picturesque, and sericeable than the English of Shakespeare's hue, and, like the American ragtime, ias the classics beaten into pulp. In a ew years' time people in England will >c speaking the American language." Dr. Hanorf went on to say: "Canada md Mexico in a few hundred years will ie part of the United States, and Ireland ilso will come under her wing. "On the breaking up of the British Smpire England may become a State of his country to save herself from German •ule. The great war of the future will « between Germany and the United States, and the victor will have to prerare for a struggle with China."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 214, 6 September 1912, Page 8
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