And this pidgin was not a language.

而实际上混杂语言并不是一种语言。

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EcmaScript is not a language designed for writing large programs.

EcmaScript不是为编写大型程序而设计的语言。

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Some say that it's not a language at all; others say that it's the only language that makes sense.

有人说它根本不是一门语言，也有人说它是唯一有意义的语言。

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The school also teaches the Shan language because most students did not receive a good education in Burma.

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So, we're going to talk about somebody's idea about racial prejudice, but that's not a theory of language acquisition.

我们会谈到某人所提出的,关于种族偏见的理论，但它却并不是语言获得的理论。

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especially if it's a language that's not like your own, like Russian is very different from English,

尤其是当这门外语和你的母语相差很大，例如，俄罗斯语和英语的差距就很大。

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Some civil-rights groups also argue that by relying too heavily on standardised tests to decide whether a child goes up a grade or not, pupils whose first language is not English are at a disadvantage.

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And, at least in private, these distinctions are still strong: not only a different language, but arranged marriages and strict laws of purity.

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Not really, just evidence of the familiar problem of British skills shortages a problem so acute that many employers prefer to hire a worker who does not have English as a first language, in preference to a less-skilled native.

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