The Czech writer, former dissident and now former president Vaclav Havel once said to me that there are three kinds of English: There's the kind of English that Czechs speak to Spaniards and Italians speak to Russians. Here, you understand 100 per cent. American English - you get about 50 per cent. Then there's English English, of which you understand nothing.

Extremes of Europe Dissident Views

Two types of European today: the deeply Europeanized anti-European and the deeply Americanized anti-American.
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