“You push a button, and the world’s yours. You know how they talk about the world getting smaller? Well, it’s thanks to these that it is. Everywhere now is our own neighborhood.” This prophetic pronouncement was made by Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan way back in the hippie sixties, so it’s clear this wasn’t him talking about the Internet (he was talking about telephones). The underlying sentiments, however, very much ring true today regarding this global village we call the Web. However small the world may be getting, figuratively speaking, there is still the inherent language barriers to circumvent. There are…
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