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Web Semantics: global English saturation

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*Time is on the side of literatures like this. Not because the locals get better at writing literature, but because the structure of language is globalizing.

http://nadafaris.com/downloads/Anglowaiti-Literature.pdf

“we were born out of Kuwait’s infrastructure. We did not choose to learn English. English was all around us by the time we opened our baby eyes. It was present everywhere, from boards on the streets to official documents. Now it is even in our computers, phones, TVs, car radios, and on the sides of medicine bottles and milk cartons. We did not import it. We did not imitate it. It was always there. The only difference between an Anglowaiti and a traditional Kuwaiti is that an Anglowaiti feels at home in the presence of the English language. But we are still a natural specimen of the country’s population….”


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