Spoken Here Quotes

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”
― Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

“modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.”
― Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages