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[EnglishLanguage 730] Re: looking at our language

Sarah Beaman-Jones sbeaman at webster.edu
Thu Sep 28 09:20:32 EDT 2006



>Sarah,

>

>Re: Your suggestion that "we talk about world

>languages rather than foreign languages."

>

>Why?

>

>Kearney Lykins

>

Because, Kearney, calling other languages "foreign" implies that
English is the center of the universe.
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Sarah Beaman-Jones
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