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<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Hello Stirling
and Everyone,</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">I wanted to express agreement on
what you</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">say about th complexity of borders. Your</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">closing sentence about being careful
‘what</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">or who cannot be crossed’ brings
home a lot</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">of the difficulties involved in
negotiating</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">borders peacefully. The wikipedia
article on </span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">stateless nations has a lot on this
and several</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">months ago I sent a link to the list
which I’ll</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">add below on the question of
linguistic sus-</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">tainability in regard to these
questions. The</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">changes brought about by
globalization and</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">demographics in general seem just now
to</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">increase the difficulties (Brexit, Catalonia,</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Scotland</span><span lang="EN-GB">, to name only three). So it seems
to</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">me the question of sustainability is
import-</span></p>
<p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">ant. Thanks to all for the
discussion. Best</span></p>
</span><div><span><p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">wishes, William (link ></span></p></span><div><span><p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">/ <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236214159_Linguistic_Sustainability_for_a_Multilingual_Humanity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236214159_Linguistic_Sustainability_for_a_Multilingual_Humanity</a></span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p></p><p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB">/</span></p></span></div><div><span><p class="ydpde975ef6MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:117.0pt 270.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p></span><br></div><div><br></div></div><span>
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