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A recent production of “Our Town” at Severance Theater, Anchorage, Alaska

If you’ve been a regular reader of this feature of the online Chronicle and have been following the last week of posts, you’ll already know that the curtain is coming down on Lingua Franca.

Each of us who write the column has been stepping up to say thank you and goodbye. Now it’s my turn.

I never planned to be a columnist, but the six-plus years I’ve been here have taught me a lot about language. Not just the language-y ...