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Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.


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Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.
         



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On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.



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