Linguistics@mander.xyz · 10 hours ago

Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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Linguistics@mander.xyz · 10 hours ago

In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.

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Tangent re: New Yorker: I’m about to host-block websites that drop a non-dismissible paywall over the browser and force a quit-and-restart
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  Here’s an archive link to bypass the paywall.
  
  @koavf@lemmy.ml it would be great if you included this archive link into the OP.
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    Thank you!

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