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"Proud men say what kind of language are you to take on… thinking of English as some kind of national affair. It isn’t. That language that came into England comes from Sanskrit. It came from the enormous crossbreeding of world fighting men. It had to be something more or less understandable by… Many, many roots… The palace, and so forth, had to get some common words.
“It seemed as though you had to have some common words so that pilots, for instance, could pilot airplanes through all kinds of languages. So through the airplane, once again, evolution is bring about a world language. We have the names for each of the letters and they are Juliet and Romeo and Coca Cola, things that are highly recognizable. I see nature working out the universal languages.”
