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I have lived in a near-border area for most of my life. Don't forget that language is also used as a weapon, and not just by the more powerful language group. For example, Spanish, (and it's border corruption Tex-Mex), as used as a shield for privacy among (apparent) non-Spanish speakers. As a late teenage, I and a friend used to have grand times when we were in public places, listening to people talking Spanish behind us in lines, and then speaking back and for between us in broken German, which the Spanish speakers didn't know. The sudden silence and nasty looks were priceless. How dare we talk in a language they didn't understand. (Which was what they were doing....)
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