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The Interpreter
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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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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)
Daniel L. Everett • 2 highlights
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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
The Portuguese were a network, held together by religion and language, and with better sources of market information in long-distance trades than their purely Asian counterparts.11 Portuguese became the lingua franca of maritime Asia. The very marginality of the Portuguese as an alien maritime subculture helped to make them acceptable to
... See moreJohn Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
