People don't help much.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?