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idiom Arts the characteristic artistic style of an individual, school, period, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is precisely because such phrases are not part of the current idiom that they give distinction to the style. Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially when, at the age of three years old, they are taken from the maternal care and taught to unlearn the old language -- except for the purpose of repeating it in the presence of their Mothers and Nurses -- and to learn the vocabulary and idiom of science. Neither has it been possible for the writer of it to render the full force of the Zulu idiom nor to convey a picture of the teller. |
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