Michael (nebris) wrote in linguaphiles,
Michael
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Food For Thought

~I suspect that this article in World Affairs Journal, The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English, will be of no small interest to many members of this community. In it, Prof. McWhorter manages to be both culturally and politically provocative while simultaneously being quite linguistically informative. Chew thoroughly.
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