Check out this excellent article by Orson Scott Card entitled Groupthink and the Intellectual Elite
Excerpt:
One of the most amusing things about the movement to force immigrants to speak only English is that we have a much more serious language problem on our hands—and it’s centered in the universities.
There are whole departments where English has been effectively banned and replaced with “Theoretics,” a language designed so that the speaker can make the listener feel stupid without the speaker actually having to be smart.
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