Dr. Marguerite Mahler
Framingham State College, Massachusetts 01701

Spring 2007
Office: Whittemore CUM09
Office Hours: M & F: 12:30-1:20; Th 9:30-10:20
Tel: (508) 626-4676
email: mmahler@frc.mass.edu

"Own...what you can carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelag

Rebecca West and her husband were eating with friends in Zagreb, when the talk turned to Pushkin. "...the editor and the editor's wife and Valetta and the Russian all began to talk at once,.... The talk had been in French, it swung to Serbo-Croat, it ended in Russian. My husband and I sat tantalized to fury. We knew Pushkin only by translation; ... and we liked his short stories rather less than Nathaniel Hawthorne's; and obviously we are wrong, for because of limitations of language we are debarred from seeing something that is obvious to unsealed eyes as the difference between a mule and a Derby winner." Penguin Books 1994 Pages 60-61 . Black Lamb & Grey Falcon

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all". Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." Noam Chomsky