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Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by koavf@lemmy.ml to c/linguistics@mander.xyz

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

[Speaking as a mod]

Don't engage in this sort of "I didn't read, but I feel entitled to voice my opinion" here. It's noisy, annoying, and often prone to create misinformation, like you are doing - falsely claiming that the newspaper's take is "second language bad".

Here's the archive link, by the way.