One tongue is enough for any woman
As for the girl, it will avail her nothing to know a foreign language, archaeology and trigonometry, if she cannot manage a home, a husband and a child; fidelity is nourished through the stomach, and good pies do more for monogamy than all the languages that have ever died. One tongue is enough for any woman, and a good mother is worth a thousand Ph.D.’s.
I would like to know what does the " tongue" in the last sentence mean? Thanks.
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"Tongue" means 'language' in this context (see definition iii).
Tongue can refer to any of these:
i) the organ in our mouth that we use for speaking, swallowing, French kissing (;, etc.
ii) the way in which a person talks, e.g. 'he has a smooth tongue'
iii) a particular language. e.g. my mother tongue is Elvish; or: I can't understand him, he is speaking in a foreign tongue
iv) Something that looks like a tongue, e.g. a tongue of flames; a tongue of land, etc.
So what the quote is saying is that one language is enough for a woman.
Hope this helps. :)
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In this sentence the word "tongue" means language. I don't really agree personally with the quote, but grammatically is ok.
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tongue = language
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