what is important to a culture can be discovered by looking at its language.
Anyone else notice how when you switch from your first language to your second there is a pause, where you have to process, before you speak your second language?
I thought of this today when I saw that classic bumper sticker, “Welcome to America, now speak english.” I’m sure most of you have seen it before, but if you hadn’t, that should help explain this piece.
here you go anon
This pleases me.
(via a-spoon-is-born)
English the first foreign language
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Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or more sonically pleasing. Its international usage comes from forceful assimilation and legacy of colonialistic injection. It isn’t a deed that one should take pride in.