Dublin Inquirer cites Reagan book in article about controversial Ryanair quiz
cited a book by Timothy Reagan, professor of foreign language education, in a report about budget airline Ryanair forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to take a quiz in Afrikaans to prove their nationality. Reagan鈥檚 2019 book 鈥淟inguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice鈥 says that today鈥檚 Afrikaans evolved from the Dutch language, whose speakers colonized South Africa centuries ago. The fraught history of the language makes the Ryanair incidents 鈥渁ll the more painful and ironic,鈥 according to the article.