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A few years ago there was a joke circulating about a distinguished, European-looking gentleman who walked into the lobby of a hotel in Average Town, U.S.A., and approached two clerks who were registering guests.
If a little knowledge is dangerous,
where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
—Thomas Huxley
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Farnsworth, K.A. (2010). Second Language from the Start. In: Grassroots School Reform. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114661_9
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