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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Schmitt, Karen</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:schmittk@ohio.edu">schmittk@ohio.edu</a></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.16 (03) [EN]</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Marlou,</span><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I agree completely and I have never responded
to anything on this list before and I am even an ESL teacher at an
American university! I already can't stand that so many students who
have no real interest in English as the beautiful language it can be
come to us because somehow their parents think that getting an
undergraduate education at an American university is worth more than
getting an undergraduate education in their own language at one of their
own universities. We have so sadly flipped these definitions [</span><a style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/education" target="_blank">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/education</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">]:</span><div style="padding:0px 0px 5px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;margin:0px;display:block;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px;background-image:none">
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(123,123,123);display:block;float:left;width:28px"><span><span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>1.</span></span></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 37px;font-size:small">
<span><span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 37px;font-size:small"><span><span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">the</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">act</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">or</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">process</span> <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword">imparting</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">acquiring</span> <span name="hotword">general </span><span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">knowledge,</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">developing</span> <span name="hotword">the</span> <span name="hotword">powers</span> <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword">reasoning</span> <span name="hotword">and </span><span name="hotword">judgment,</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">and</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">generally</span> <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword">preparing</span> <span name="hotword">oneself</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">others </span><span name="hotword">intellectually</span> <span name="hotword">for</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mature" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:underline;font-size:small" target="_blank">mature</a><span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">life.</span></span></div>
</div><div style="padding:0px 0px 5px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;margin:0px;display:block;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;font-size:small;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px;background-image:none">
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(123,123,123);display:block;float:left;width:28px"><span><span name="hotword">2.</span></span></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 37px;font-size:small"><span><span name="hotword">the</span> <span name="hotword">act</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">process</span> <span name="hotword">of</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">imparting</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">or</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">acquiring</span> <span name="hotword" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">particular </span><span name="hotword">knowledge</span> <span name="hotword">or</span> <span name="hotword">skills,</span> <span name="hotword">as</span> <span name="hotword">for</span> <span name="hotword">a</span> <span name="hotword">profession.</span></span></div>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>And we are all poorer for it.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888">Karen Schmitt</font></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.16 (01) [EN]</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Perhaps they are just copying their ex-would-be-colony, Ethiopia.
English has been the official language of instruction at Addis Ababa
University since ... forever. (English is also the official language of
Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, but at least there
is makes a certain sense, English being one of the </span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">de facto</i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> national languages of India.)</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sandy wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="font-size:12pt;font-family:georgia,serif" size="3">Article on an Italian university adopting English as its official language:</font><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><a style="font-family:georgia,serif" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520</a><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">I haven't really decided what I think about that yet!</span></span><br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mwm || </span><u style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">U</u><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">academic adviser to "Nepal Sign Language Training and Research Centre" project</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
Subject: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.16 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Inevitable but unfortunate in my opinion. I've never shared
the view of most fellow English speakers that I'm "lucky" to be born to
the World Language; I think I'm hampered by it. But I know there's
nothing I can do about it.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Paul</span></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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