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<p class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span class="gI"><span class="gD">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:hannehinz@t-online.de" target="_blank"></a><br>
Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.16 (01) [EN]</span><br><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><font size="+1">Dear Sandy, my spontaneous
reaction was "Oh dear no!", and after reading the article, it's
the same reaction. Extremely frustrating. This is bad for
Italian, bad for English, bad for science and bad for people</font>.
<big>It's another step towards reducing diversity in the world and
establishing a crippeld English as lingua franca. And why the heck
shouldn't people who want to study in Italy learn Italian?! Is it
considered a waste of time?! Inefficient, inexpedient, obsolete?
Because in truth, there is money behind this decision. Is life
only there to polish your eligibility for multinational
companies?! Who wants to live in such a world???? Where Italian
spoken in Italy is nothing but a nuisance!!!<br>
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I guess we will have more of this in the future. Every little
cultural extra that doesn't pay off is erased. Who thought
Globalization meant having all sorts of people communicate? It
seems it means having only one sort of people after all, and they
not really communicating -- in their
500-words-minimal-grammar-English.<br>
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Angry greetings<br>
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Marlou <br><br>----------<br><br></big><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span class="gI"><span class="gD">Andy Eagle</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:andy@scots-online.org">andy@scots-online.org</a></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.16 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div class="im">Sandy wrote:<br>
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>Article on an Italian university adopting English as its official language:<br>
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><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520</a><br>
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>I haven't really decided what I think about that yet!<br>
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</div>Mainly seems to be about operating as an institution in a global
marketplace where English is the lingua franca. No one seems to be
suggesting that Italians abandon Italian and adopt English in order to
get on in life, or that teaching Italian in schools will hold pupils
back and disadvantage them... multilingualism seems to be the flavour of
the day.<br><br><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888">Andy Eagle</font></span><br><span class="gI"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><font><span></span></font></i></font>
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