Ambassador (retired) Geeta Pasi, the inaugural Donald F. McHenry Visiting Professor in Diplomacy and International Affairs, talked to students about the importance of language in Professor Olya Cochran’s Composition as Critical Inquiry class on September 23.
Key themes included the importance of foreign language knowledge in international affairs as well variants of English usage overseas. The students raised regional differences in English in the United States as well as evolving views on what is acceptable in terms of modern usage.
