When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous remark that the British and the Americans are two nations divided by a common language, he was obviously thinking about the differences.
A group of socialist intellectuals proponents of gradual social reform leading figures included playwright George Bernard Shaw and founders of the London School of Economics Beatrice and Sydney Webb.
A brilliant critic and political philosopher, his plays are both brainy comedies and articulations of his particular and sometimes weird beliefs about men, women, evolutio, and and civil society.
Among these pillars of English literature were Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke.
When you're on the telephone to someone, especially if you're British – you know, that Bernard Shaw thing – oh, you know, the moment one Englishman opens his mouth another Englishman despises him.
So for John Holliman and Bernard Shaw and myself, Peter Arnett here is signing off from Baghdad for CNN and I hope we can resume our communication with you in the very near future.
We did expect to have this come in and out, but our three correspondents, Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman are there in the Al Rasheed Hotel.
An open microphone from Baghdad, from the hotel now being -- hotel room now being left, we believe, by Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, John Holliman and their support staff there.
As George Bernard Shaw pointed out, the word fish could just as easily be spelled ghoti, using the " gh" sound in enough, the " o" sound from women, and the " ti" from the middle of nation.
正如萧伯所指出的,fish 这个词可以很容易地拼写为 ghoti,使用 enough 中的“gh”音,女性的“o”音,以及 medium of nation 的“ti”音。