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Originally Posted by av8tor
I think the posters claiming that intellectual capacity and the ability to think are somehow curtailed by specific L1's are full of crap. Sounds like 19th century racism: The neallw white man's burden is to do the world's thinking for it, because his language is so much superior.
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It's called linguistic determinism. I see the fact that English is the language of science, medicine, aviation, computer technology, tourism, and diplomacy as SELLING points of English only.