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A Language is not a Widget

Joseph M. Pierce

31 Aug 2018 — 1 min read
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A Language is not a Widget

This short piece just came out in Portal, the magazine of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. I am glad to have had the chance to reflect on the past year’s administrative crazy at SBU, and will be writing a postdata to this text to bring it up to date.

https://llilasbensonmagazine.org/2018/08/27/alumni-spotlight-a-language-is-not-a-widget/

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