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Language acquisition

te, black, red, and yellow. When a person says "n***r," people automatically think of a black man who is criminal, not thinking that their race is full of criminals, too. Words have been responsible for some of the most horrible crimes of humanity. Naziism got it's start by calling names. Their leader, Hitler, was known in history as the "master orator", since he managed to turn so many German people against the Jews. "He knew how to pick the 'right' words for his purposes and to arrange them in slogans, which utterly overwhelm nonconformity with party doctrine." Third Party Languages With today 6000 languages and dialects, the attempt to unite our divided world has been virtually impossible. The multiple languages in one country have also been a problem for human communities. More times the language has been used to partition a particular country, than to unite it. Since this is a serious problem, third language is often used in relations between two countries. Those languages are often called linguae francae, which in Italian means Frankish language, named after a mixture of Italian and other languages used during the Middle Ages. Linguae francae are often used in trade and politics. The best know lingua franca in politics is probably English, since it is used, along with French, as an official language of United Nations. English is frequently used in peace talks and in sporting events, such as Olympic Games. In a country where many seperate languages and dialects are spoken, one language may be chosen as the lingua franca of commerce and government. One country like that is India, where, even though 15 languages are constitutionally recognized, English serves as third party language. Other examples include Mandarin Chinese and Swahili, a Bantu language spoken throughout East Africa (Lingua Franca 1). Creole languages are trully phenomenons, when it comes to linguistics. They are fully formed languages that develop from pidgin (trade)...

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