I could yap for hours about this (with more nuance than an IG Reel allows for) but here are some things that I say to English speakers who say this to me. In my experience it is only monolingual people who say it…Speaking many languages - and respecting different people’s right to their own language and cultural inheritance - is far better for ourselves and our planet than shrinking our linguistic diversity. For my fuller nuanced yap read all about it in How To Kill A Language, out from tomorrow
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I could yap for hours about this (with more nuance than an IG Reel allows for) but here are some things that I say to English speakers who say this to me. In my experience it is only monolingual people who say it…Speaking many languages - and respecting different people’s right to their own language and cultural inheritance - is far better for ourselves and our planet than shrinking our linguistic diversity. For my fuller nuanced yap read all about it in How To Kill A Language, out from tomorrow
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