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Thread #110424 Message #2487351
Posted By: peregrina
07-Nov-08 - 06:12 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
'National' musical instrument?!!!
How about using the English language with no WORDS or syntactical constructions not derived from Old English. (So you'll lose the word national for a start.)
The impoverished result of our language stripped of its rich acqusitions would be a poor instrument for any literary expression. There's an argument for accepting cultural borrowings all right instead of trying to impose this daft enclosure movement on humankind.
And so--why should music be different from language? Neither can be monocultural.