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'How the English Language Is Taking Over the Planet'
-No language in history has dominated the world quite like English does today. Is there any point in resisting?-
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- flol “I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle. But for Englishmen my capacities are just sufficient.”Nairn
- I mean, if you're going to go on and on about gatekeeping language and identity, yet fail to mention your country's most significant literary mind..garbage
- ..this English-speaker is just saying it's convenient that the writer never mentioned Gombrowicz by name, because he would have hated this article.garbage
- And I could go on about linguistic theory, and how a history of fascist censorship led to the dominance of the English language, but that would be boring.garbage