Dublin Inquirer cites Reagan book in article about controversial Ryanair quiz
The Dublin Inquirer cited a book by Timothy Reagan, professor of foreign language education at the University of Maine, in a report about South African citizens being refused passage without a visa on the airline Ryanair because they are not able to complete a quiz in Afrikaans. Reagan’s 2019 book “Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice” says that today’s Afrikaans evolved from the Dutch language, whose speakers colonized the country centuries ago. The fraught history of the language makes the Ryanair incidents “all the more painful and ironic,” according to the article.