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    Supports→A 'pure language' for Derrida means a language whose terms necessarily include a plurality of senses that cannot be reduced to one proper meaning.

    Idioms within a single language can be 'translated' — that is, they carry undecidable multiple meanings even within that one language.

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    Nevertheless, for Derrida, a kind of purity remains as a value. In his 1992 The Monolingualism of the Other, Derrida speaks of his “shameful intolerance” for anything but the purity of the French language (as opposed to French contaminated with English words like “le weekend”). Derrida says, “I still do not dare admit this compulsive demand for a purity of language except within boundaries of which I can be sure: this demand is neither ethical, political, nor social. It does not inspire any judg

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