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I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.

In Pilch's terminology, sesquilingualism (mastery of one-and-a-half languages) occurs when all members of a given society speak the inferior [sic] language, but only some of its members speak the prestige language, usually in a more or less imperfect manner as a 'foreign language.'