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"ref": "1998 February 4, Don HARLOW, “Re: Multilingual Americans: A rare breed???”, in sci.lang.translation (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2004 June 25, LEE Sau Dan, “Re: Learning a language”, in sci.lang (Usenet)",
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