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John McWhorter makes the case – which he knows is provocative and controversial – that the death of small lanuages may be more an aesthetic tragedy than a cultural one, and may, in the end, be completely unavoidable: "At the end of the day, language death is, ironically, a symptom of people coming together. "
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Fascinating and challenging article on the problems with the modern PhD – massive oversupply for few jobs, far too long and apparently designed to produce ABDs, not new doctorates: "there is a huge social inefficiency in taking people of high intelligence and devoting resources to training them in programs that half will never complete and for jobs that most will not get."