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Air traffic control and scientific research turned out to be mere preludes. The most powerful force for anglicization has been the internet. It has promoted international communication, but it has set English proficiency as the price. The Internet was invented in the United States and has been disproportionately Anglophone ever since. In 1997 a
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language of power – of social power; I shall call it the father tongue.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Nisga’a architect luugigyoo patrick reid stewart likens the gram-mar of the English language to the striation of colonial land appropriation. To counter the violence of lan-guage, he writes without periods or capitals and spells “Canada,” a word derived from the Iroquoian word kanata , meaning “settlement, ” with backward slashes between each of... See more
