Why is Language so loaded? It is amazing to me that people can look down at other people because of the language they speak. In the past and in the present people have their own language suppressed as a way of control and as a way of what I can only call brainwashing, although I'd like to think there is a better word for it. Language can also be religious. Irish, for example, is loaded with religious phrases. The way you say hello or the way you say almost anything involves god, which could be exclusionary if you were forcing the language on other people, but when it has been around for a long time you simply get used to it, like an atheist saying 'bless you' or even 'god bless you' when someone sneezes.
I love languages and I find almost all of them absolutely fascinating, plus the way that people think is amazingly different by what language they speak. When people can speak multiple languages they can actually think in more areas than those who speak only one language and can understand concepts that some people who are not multilingual cannot. Which is not to say that someone is better than someone else because they are multilingual, they just may not have the same concepts introduced to them.
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