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choice of language and there is no getting
But we are obliged to assume that they have excellent reasons for their choice of language, and there is no getting around the fact that if we wish to profit by their wisdom we have to learn at least the simple rules of their speech.
— from The Black Bear by William H. (William Henry) Wright

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