ECATCO Info | Opinions and Reflections (part 3)

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"Most people in the world are multilingual, and everybody could be; no one is rigorously excluded from another's language community except through lack of time and effort. Different languages protect and nourish the growth of different cultures, where different pathways of human knowledge can be discovered. They certainly make life richer for those who know more than one of them."

 (Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word)

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