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“Every language is complex in its own way”

“Consider the Bible…”

‘London was both unimaginably rich and wretchedly poor. London - lovely, ugly, sprawling, cramped, belching, sniffing, virtuous, hypocritical, silver-gilded London - was near reckoning, for the day would come when it either devoted itself from inside or cast outwards for new delicacies, labour, and culture on which to feed.’

‘To accept without thinking.’

How different is this scenario from Russians and Germans eradicating the Polish language during the occupation?