The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written but to challenge my writing this story at all speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
There is the fear common to all English-only speakers that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise you know why not just come out and say it?
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I won't touch on risky because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
