...Our sense of pride and power is...

Yeah, well, speak for yourself!!!

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English therefore is a neurosis inducing linguistic disease that will help eradicate language as we know it...

At least your consistent with being the eternal optomist I've come to know you as...

... and, English is (at the same time) being a language that slows progress down and holds the tension (like a stretched rubber band) as specific politics get assigned to it *arbitrarily.

sjm - My above post goes directly toward perceptions of language and specific posturings involved.