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   alexander koryagin to Anton Shepelev   
   Football?   
   07 Jul 16 16:37:04   
   
   Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from  06.07.2016 17:55   
   about Football?.   
      
    AK>> Some countries however fight heavily against English   
    AK>> words in their languages.  For instance Croatia.  So   
    AK>> they don't have "football, they call it   
    AK>> "nogomet" -- "foot-throw".   
      
    AS> The aspiration to protect one's culture from dissolving in   
    AS> another is a noble and commendable one, and especially so in   
    AS> our age of globalization.  Language being the most important   
    AS> medium of culture, it is also the first to suffer when its   
    AS> mother culture is under attack.   
      
   I don't agree that culture and a language are inseparable. IMHO, language is   
   nothing, it just an instrument. Language just describes a PARTICULAR CULTURE.   
   We can use, for instance, English to describe the essence of a Russian soul.   
   We've translated into English our great literature.   
      
   Culture is something that located inside of people.   
   Culture it is th way we treat injustice, a lie, children, old people etc.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2016   
      
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