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<b><i>At the Intersection:</i></b> Battling Law's Second Language

By Pamela Woldow and Doug Richardson
February 29, 2016

Americans are derided in foreign cultures because so few of us speak a “foreign” language. We simply figure that in light of America's overwhelming economic, political and cultural power, we are entitled to demand that everyone around the world ' particularly lawyers, business people and airline pilots ' speak to us Americans in the way that is most convenient to us.

Yet a huge percentage of Americans do speak ' actually are forced to speak ' a second language, and the irony is that they are both compelled to speak it and yet are ridiculed for doing so. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

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