Past Is Prologue

The Most Mispronounced Word in the World

And how to undo decades of linguistic carnage

dczook
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readJun 10, 2018

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Photo by Nathaniel Shuman on Unsplash

Knowing or learning another language can be both a blessing and a curse. Don’t get me wrong — I think everyone should learn a foreign language, simply for the way it expands and enhances our perspective on the world, so don’t use the “curse” part as an excuse to…

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dczook
Human Parts

Academic, film maker, and musician whose day job is teaching peace, politics, and human rights at the University of California, Berkeley.