and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

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Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.

哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言，而在其中是有力量的，这是一首在1915年作的诗。

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The Hebrew language itself is essentially Canaanite, a Canaanite dialect.

希伯来语本身就是迦南的，是迦南方言。

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