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We
love it when the various voices on our computer sound like they’re talking
to each other. Sometimes they actually are, but mostly it
is just serendipitous juxtapositioning which nevertheless exposes counterbalance
[...]
One of the factors that has made English the dominant global language (overwhelming military, economic and cultural hegemony may have something to do with it as well) is the plasticity and adjustability of its lexicon. Unlike Spanish or French, there is no “Royal Academy” prescribing what is linguistically correct or acceptable. [...]