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Spanish language

How Maradona Explains the Word

by Duncan Murrell,

Interpreting my South American interpreter

Her heart inform her tongue

by Alexandra Fuller,

Language lost and found

Use it in a sentencing

by Roger W. Miller,

Gardening Made Simple

Linguistic sleight of hand

by Harper’s Staff,

A transposition

by Harper’s Staff,

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