They debase the polished and current language of books, by the vile alloy of provincial idioms, and colloquial barbarism, the shame of grammar, making it akin to any language, rather than English.

• 他们公然想使文学沦为俗流，用乱七八糟的方言、粗野的土话、难登大雅之堂的文法以败坏现今出版物中典雅的文字，使之不伦不类，就是不像英文。