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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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German as a Language of Science

Before 1917, 25% of American high school students studying a foreign language studied German in their school. After the war that plummeted to single digits. There were voluntary bans on German music, on German food. The producers of the National Sour Crow Association petitioned to have the name of the food change to liberty cabbage.

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