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English: Friend or Frenemy?

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The Myth of Language Mixing

Linguist says the idea of purity simply doesn't make sense. The language that you can document in a village or anywhere in the world is the language that they speak at that particular time. Even from generation to generation, even in a tiny village, you might find different. And there is no version of it that we can consider pure.

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