unit one paraphrase 1.And it is an activity only of humans. 2.Conversation is not for making a point. 3.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. 4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives. 5.....it could still go ignorantly on ... 6.They are cattle in the fields ,but we sit down to beef. 7.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language. 8.English had come royally into its own. 9.The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. 10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. 11.There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that “ words will harden into things for us.”