The Value of languages.
A good story is told of two Oxford undergraduates touring in the East, who entered the shop of a Jew whose knowledge of Englifh. though he spoke most other tongues, was limited. "With the customary carelessness of ihe Anglo-Saxon race when abroad, one undergraduate remarked to the other, on failing to make the Jew understand what he wanted, '"The fool docs not Apeak English! "
This remark came within the radius of the old Jew's comprehension, and drew from him the following questions: — '"Do you spik Italian?" to which they replied : — " No." "Do you spik Grik? '* "No." "Do you spik Turk?" "No." ' Do you spik Spanish?" "No."
"Do you spik Russian?" " No# After a pause the old man, with considerable energy, ejaculated : " Me one times tool; you live times tool ! " to the complete discomfiture of the young man.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 70
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141The Value of languages. Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 70
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