Gotta love these US scholars who discover that there are other languages besides English and who then feel the urgent need to ‘educate’ everybody about this because they assume everybody’s like them.

@true_mxp Anna Wierzbicka, author of ‘Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language’, likes this. global.oup.com/academic/produc

@lexiconista Spot on.

Actually, I also wanted to write that all of this is done by projecting US politics and culture to other places…

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