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72. “Leaving Black People in the Lurch”

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Mandarin Is Easier Than Cantinese

Was english once a creole language or never? See, that's one of those things, this kind of language being born from what starts as not learning. Mandarin is the easy chinese swahili is the easy bantoo language. Indonesian is the easy austronesian language. So they're not creoles, but there's a continuum phenomenon, and they fall along that line.

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