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Word: monoglot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Communist nations expropriated the language of Tolstoy and Confucius, and interpreters are available. But who will interpret the language of Marxism, which presents problems more complex than the conjugation of a Russian verb or the tonal inflections of Mandarin? That many-splendored monolith, world Communism, is, in fact, a monoglot, whatever national form its utterance takes; it aspires to give a new frame for human thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pidgin for Progressives | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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