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It is apparently noble to pull oneself up by the bootstraps. Alexander Ewing considers the origins of the idiom and also its practicality ... read more »

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LIVING IN BABEL
THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE | March 31st 2008

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Westerners tend to forget that for much of the world being polyglot has been a necessity for survival. Gideon Lichfield, the Jerusalem correspondent of The Economist, describes his obsession with what is lost in translation ...

From Economist.com*

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