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September 23, 2004

Uncommon Tongues

Note: this is a post recovered from my old blog, before it died of an insufficient backup. Any comments/trackbacks on it have not been brought over, but can be seen with the original. The date is that of the original posting.

George Bernard Shaw once famously described America and Britain as being "divided by a common language". When a "country" is united by different languages, it's far, far worse. (Hat tip: Pejmanesque)