5/30/2023 0 Comments War with the Newts by Karel Čapek![]() ![]() About this time, some of the Czech national newspapers began to complain bitterly, no doubt with good reason, that none of the newts could speak their language. In short, for good or for ill, the newts became able to speak almost every language of the world according to what coast they lived on. Even many humans stopped attending to grammatical gender, word endings were dropped, declinations disappeared our golden youth neglected to say r properly and learned to lisp few educated people were any longer certain what was meant by 'indeterminism' or 'transcendent', simply because these words, even for human beings, were too long and too hard to pronounce. ![]() “It is worth nothing that their neologisms, pronounciations and simplified grammar was quickly adopted by both the simplest people in the ports and by the so-called best people and from the ports this way of speaking spread out into the newspapers and was soon in general use. ![]()
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