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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-date高级英语-Pub-Talk-and-the-King的简要介绍The Summary of Pub Talk and the Kings EnglishThe Summary of Pub Talk and the Kings EnglishThe article describes the conversation is the most sociable of a
2、ll human activities and it is an activity only of humans. The charm of conversation is that it doesnt really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go. Conversation is not for making a point. There is no winning in conversation.Bar conversation has its special charm. Bar friends
3、are not deeply involved in each others lives, but they can have any kinds of conversation freely. One night in the bar, when the author and his companions have a conversation desultorily here and there, one of them says that the Kings English is laid down as English is a term of criticism, which bec
4、omes a focus between them and becomes a focal subject. There would be resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for “English as it should be spoken.” There are language barriers between the Saxon churls and their Norman conquerors and there is a deep class ri
5、ft in the culture of England after the Norman Conquest. By building their French against the Saxon peasants own language, the new ruling class has built a cultural barrier against him. Kings English comes into use in the 16th century, and after five centuries of growth, of tussling with the French a
6、nd absorbing it, English has come into their own and become a universal language in England. Words are not themselves a reality, but only representations of it, and the Kings English is a class representation of reality. The Kings English is a model, but it shouldnt be an ultimatum. In fact, even the most educated and literate people do not use Standard English all the time in their conversation. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin conversion. -