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Title: Whose Planet Is This For?
Review: A friend gave me a copy of this book--and at first I was delighted. However, it made me more and more uneasy. What difference does it make if we pronounce things differently--even incorrectly--if the people around us understand us? So we don't appear stupid? So we can appear to be elite? Where I live, I often have to listen closely and patiently to understand immigrants' English. It seems silly to worry about trivial differences under these circumstances.Walking through downtown Pasadena today, I heard two girls talking: I'm so excited about esta noche, one said to the other. What fun to bounce between two languages like that! With this kind of vitality, who needs a dried-up old guide to speaking ever so precisely?
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