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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.