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To English with Love(1)
By Mohammed El-Rayah
English is a perplexing language. You could have smelly feet and running nose, and nobody stops to wonder. Knowing this fact, does not make things easier. Why don’t English people treat other languages the same way we treat their language? Why every eye braw was raised beyond its limits when one of our Sudanese citizens stopped a police officer in Oxford Street and asked him whether he had seen a [...]
To English with Love(2)
By Mohammed El-Rayah
When I arrived in Britain for the first time in 1965, I was sent to Edinburgh, Scotland, to get attached to the Royal Scottish Museum to work for the Diploma of the Museum Associations. Loaded with all the English vocabulary and an orientation course arranged by the British Council in Khartoum, I told to note that (English people do not shake hands every time they meet a person, but make [...]
To park or not to park
By Mohammed El-Rayah
To park or not to park, that was not the question. I was sitting beside my friend who was driving his car along the Gamaa Ave. suddenly he applied the brakes and swiftly turned to the left and parked the car. Taken by surprise, I shouted:
- “Why are you stopping?”
- “Because there is an empty space to park my car.” He replied
I still didn’t quite get it.
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