Our language, ourselves
by Paul Greenberg, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 13, 2017
2 minutes
Here's the thing about about language: What isn't said can be as subtle as what is.
While preparing to spend some weeks touring the late unlamented Soviet Union, I once took a highly abbreviated course in Russian offered by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Then I went off, armed with my pidgin Russian, to see what was then Leningrad (now St. Petersburg again), as well as
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