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George Steiner

“The externals of English are being acquired by speakers wholly alien to the historical fabric, to the inventory of felt moral, cultural existence embedded in the language. The landscapes of experience, the fields of idiomatic, symbolic, communal reference which give to the language its specific gravity, are distorted in transfer or lost altogether”

George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by George Steiner
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