Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

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It could be, for instance, that language is such a good idea that every culture comes across it and develops it.

比如说,可能只是因为,语言是一个非常棒的创新,所有文化都接受了它,并且发展了它

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Because language is a reflection of the culture and the culture is a reflection of the language.

因为语言是文化的反映，文化也是语言的反映。

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Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

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We're talking about a culture when we're talking about the Greeks, which is most strikingly signified by the language that is spoken.

当我们谈论希腊人时我们是谈论希腊文化,是严格以所使用的语言为主要标志的

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And how much of it is the product of culture, of language, of schooling?

又有多少是文化的产物,语言的产物,或是教育的产物

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