Caught in the grips of linguistic paranoia (fwd link)

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Caught in the grips of linguistic paranoia

OP-ED
By Nataly Kelly
August 11, 2008

WHAT MAKES the largest military power on earth tremble in its boots? What causes
an entire nation of people - the majority of whom descended from non-English
speakers - to shudder in fear? What provokes outrage at debates and town hall
meetings in the current presidential campaign? Language, that's what.

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