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</div><font size="2">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Mike Wintzer</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:k9mw@yahoo.com">k9mw@yahoo.com</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.13 (04) [EN]<br><br></span></font><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">
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<div><font size="2">Hi all, </font></div><div class="im">
<div><font size="2">Paul writes:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><strong>My point, after all this, is that intensive language
teaching clearly does not necessarily "build bridges and promote
understanding", as conventional educational wisdom would have it.</strong></font></div>
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</div><div><font size="2">To Paul's list of failures Ireland could be added as an outstanding example.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I fully agree with Paul:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Governments cannot regulate these matters. The only thing they can do</font></div>
<div><font size="2">if they are serious about preserving a language is to make it the primary</font></div>
<div><font size="2">language of public life (education, media, administration). The rest will</font></div>
<div><font size="2">take care of itself. And, I might add, teach the lingua franca (which, </font></div>
<div><font size="2">alas, does not yet exist, de jure, on a global scale).</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Greetings to all, Mike Wintzer<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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