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Decoding Language, Ideology, and Militancy: A Conversation with Carl Eugene Straude on Multilingualism and Leftist Movements

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The Importance of Precision in Theory in Other Languages

The precision on a kind of perfect word is not there in languages like French and Spanish which allows for a kind of theoretical discourse that is not so immediately ideologically debated/nThe idea that discourse in a second language can be so perfectly precise is not really there anymore, especially when interacting with English speakers from different places in the world/nEnglish is an incredibly difficult language to master due to its highly conitative nature and all kinds of class, social and ideological shades that come with every word choice/nThis long tendency debate that English often has might be 100 or 200 years old, and it can be alienating to non-hyper-educated English speakers and non-native speakers alike

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