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Immigration ‘Language is the Skin of the Soul’

By Angelo A. Paparelli on March 26, 2011
Posted in General Immigration, Hate speech, Immigration terminology

As 1930s radio shows and 21st Century talk-radio shock jocks remind us, words — perhaps even more than images — carry evocative power, the power to incite passion.  Fernando Lázaro Carreter, the academician and guardian of Spanish (whose quote appears in the title of this post and in a slide deck I published years back on…

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