Language barrier...
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When in Bahá'í history
Baghdád (today: Baghdad, Iraq)
In a
talk about our need for an international language, given at the Esperanto
Society in Edinburgh, Scotland, on January 7, 1913, ‘Abdu’l-Baha cited the
following funny incident to demonstrate how language barriers could cause misunderstandings:Source: Baha'i Stories Blog (https://bahaistories.blogspot.com/2017/01/need-for-international-language.html).
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Various. *Baha'i Stories Blog*. https://bahaistories.blogspot.com/2017/01/need-for-international-language.html
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