Language
Throughout Guyana, English is the main language, and it is the only English speaking country of South America, although it is primarily spoken with a Caribbean dialect. Although Guyanese speak English, the Latin influence and words remain. For example "Chico" is gum in Guyana also referred to a boy. "bailar" is a common phrase used when people are about to dance. The Spanish/Portuguese languages are used very little now in Guyana because of the British influence, but the Hispanic culture still appears in certain words, particularly surnames, as well as the sounds of Musical instruments used
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“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)