Tom McArthur, Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIoL), was a world-renowned linguist who knew no less than eight languages – Scots, English, French, German, Italian, Persian/Farsi, Sanskrit, Russian, and Cantonese Later he was Director of Studies for the Extra Mural English Language Courses at University of Edinburgh, and subsequently Associate Professor of English at Universite du Quebec, Canada (p 6)He indicated that English should have the flexibility and the obligation to include words from other cultures to make itself more complete, alive, inclusive, and useful to the world

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汤姆·麦克阿瑟 1938–2020

英国特许语言学家协会 (CIoL) 荣誉院士汤姆·麦克阿瑟 (Tom McArthur) 是一位世界知名的语言学家，他精通不少于八种语言——苏格兰语、英语、法语、德语、意大利语、波斯语/波斯语、梵语、俄语和后来的粤语他曾任爱丁堡大学校外英语语言课程研究主任，随后在加拿大魁北克大学担任英语副教授 (p 6) 他表示英语应该具有灵活性并有义务包含来自其他文化的词汇让自己更完整、更有活力、更包容、对世界更有用