I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

In Pilch's terminology, sesquilingualism (mastery of one-and-a-half languages) occurs when all members of a given society speak the inferior [sic] language, but only some of its members speak the prestige language, usually in a more or less imperfect manner as a 'foreign language.'

In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.

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