I did not know she was married!" Language expert Webb Garrison tells an interesting story about the expression.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

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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Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson...

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It brought up race and different modes of language and expression.

WSJ: Kehinde Wiley

And no body language coach would miss the often-tweeted-upon expression that Romney needs to be aware is his biggest negative body language signal.

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The Adaptation of Expression Law also introduced English language names for other towns, some of which were not ethnically Burmese.

BBC: Who, What, Why: Should it be Burma or Myanmar?