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Deleuze and Guattari: "The Postulates of Linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus'

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Languages of the World - It's a Top Down Imposition

Gleason: Language is not about communicating information. It's an island because of over coding and all the words, but it's an archipelago. We see this in the marginalization of ways of talking pigeon English or sort of local dialects of English. Gaelic, for example, Scots, Cornet, Monks, even just the languages of other people speaking today. I mean, if anyone who comes here and speaks languages not English, they're pressured to not use English. And that's not because English is the most efficient way of communicating semiotic flows Information. Even if it was, that wouldn't be a good reason. Both words are a top down imposition,

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