Thomas Merton observes that during anti-nuke and pro-civil rights protests of the late 1960s, glossolalia (=speaking in tongues) spread across white fundamentalist churches in southern US. They used temporary multilingualism to "foreclose all dialogue." http://www.aloha.net/~stroble/merton2.html …
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This thread is terrific—I hope it’s the basis for an essay or book or even a blog post?
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Thanks, I’ve been trying with
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I just reserved Hager’s Word by Word at my local library, thanks so much for flagging it
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