Links
Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Fidel Castro.
How the web has changed the English language.
Martin Kettle on the NYRB.
“What is so devastating in a dictatorship is the taking away of a voice,” he says. And the prevalence of English in the world, he argues, has only sharpened that blade against the larynx of indigenous peoples. “It is not a balanced equation if all languages must come to English to mean something.”
