Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. which best summarizes the central idea in the excerpt? tan is troubled by the way her mother uses the english language. tan is uncomfortable using negative terms to describe her mother’s english. tan has difficulty trying to explain what she means when she writes in english. tan has found that the english language is lacking in descriptive word choices.

Tan is uncomfortable using negative terms to describe her mother’s English.

It is uncomfortable for Tan to to accept that she has to use terms that have a negative denotation to describe her mother's speaking.

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hospitality is mentioned many times in odysseus. it is known as xenia in the poem. one notable example is.

here is a poor man come, a wanderer,

driven by want to beg his bread, and everyone

in hall gave bits, to cram his bag—only

antinous threw a stool, and banged his shoulder

the lines show odysseus disguised as a beggar and shares his bread with another beggar in a weird way because he had to defeat him in order to eat. however, odysseus does not kill the old man and even shows his hospitality.

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