Mouthful of Air: Languages, Languages...Especially English | 
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"Before we can study language coolly, we must strangle our group prejudices; we must explode a great number of hoary fallacies, themselves derived from emotional attitudes. As no language is either beautiful or ugly, so no language in intrinsically either superior or inferior to another. The fact that English has become a world auxiliary is no evidence that it is a better language than Basque or Finnish;(24)
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