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If i spoke no english, my world would be limited to the japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented i was, i could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

-S. I. Hayakawa

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If I Spoke No English, My World

S. I. Hayakawa

If i spoke no english, my world would be limited to the japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented i was, i could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

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I have a funny relationship to language. when i came to california when i was three i spoke urdu fluently and i didn't speak a word of english. within a few months i lost all my urdu and spoke only english and then i learned urdu all over again when i was nine. urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my english and it's sort of become my third language. english is my best language but was the second language i learned.

So you want another story?" uhh... no. we would like to know what really happened." doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" uhh... perhaps in english. in japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. we don't want any invention. we want the 'straight facts,' as you say in english." isn't telling about something--using words, english or japanese--already something of an invention? isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'i read a while ago,' he told branson, 'that the french drink more red wine than the english but live longer. the japanese eat more fish than the english but drink less wine and live longer. the germans eat more red meat than the english, and drink more beer and they live longer too. you know the moral of this story? 'no' 'it's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking english that kills you.

Imagine what i could have done in ten years. i could have learned to speak japanese. i could have played every rpg video game ever created, and if i spoke japanese i could have played the foreign ones too! man, i could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if i wanted.

I hope my talent has something to do with it. i just think this business is so crazy. i obviously do the best i can, and the directors i admire see something in me. but this is a strange business, and there are people who are incredibly talented who never make it, who never get these opportunities. so that's why i say i'm lucky. i don't feel that i'm not talented - i think i am talented - but i also think i'm very lucky.

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