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The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes.
—Njabulo Ndebele, The English Language and Social Change

Posted on March 26, 2003 at 1:22 PM

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