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In the Driftway
October 24, 1928 issue

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The article focuses on the views about linguists of various countries. The Germans, admittedly, are good linguists. Americans are probably the worst linguists in the world. Living in an isolated, largely self-sustaining land, with prodigious natural resources and a fabulous industrial prosperity built upon immigrant labor, Americans generally go abroad in a privileged capacity. The best linguists are found in small countries like Holland and Switzerland, where the inhabitants have to be all things to all nations. Germany is a new country which has had to make its way in the world by building up foreign trade competitively.

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LANGUAGE & languages; LINGUISTS; PHILOLOGISTS; MULTILINGUAL persons; MIGRANT labor; GERMANS; UNITED States
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