Deleuze on language

Food for thought around empiricism and language from Deleuze's section on empiricism in the
second chapter of dialogues - on the superiority of Anglo-American literature. I want to blog more on this when I get time:

[English] is a hegemonic, imperialistic language. But for this reason it is all the more vulnerable to the subterranean workings of languages and dialects which undermine it from all sides and impose on it a play of vast corruptions and variations. Those who campaign for a pure French, uncontaminated by English, are in our view posing a false problem which only has any validity in the discussion of intellectuals. The American language bases its despotic official pretensions, its majoritarian claim to hegemony, only on its extraordinary capacity for being twisted and shattered and for secretly putting itself in the service of minorities who work it from inside, involuntarily, unofficially, nibbling away at that hegemony as it extends itself: the reverse of power [...] It is not a question of speaking a language as if one was a foreigner, it is a question of being a foreigner in one's own language ...