Language culture and education


	Language culture and education

hayesstw

5-12-2008 3:37 AM

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language, culture, education, afrikaans, calvinism, hinduism

hayesstw says:

I can't help thinking that there is more to this story than meets the eye. Even when one reads the full version, rather than the bits I've cited in the clip, itg seems that there is more in the subtext than in the text itself, one needs to read between the lines to find the iddues that everyone seems to be trying to avoid.

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