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Languages: You are what you speak

I read this very interesting article about the diversity of languages in New Scientist. For 50 years scientists have been looking for the universal grammar underlying all languages, but these absolute rules have become a straitjacket.
Any given language is a complex system shaped by many factors, including culture, genetics and history. There seem to be no absolutely universal traits of language, only tendencies. And it is a mix of strong and weak tendencies that characterises the "bio-cultural" hybrid we call language.

Me as a European citizen

Ancesters throwing shadows, their utensils at hand.
Time always looming.
Thank goodness there are trees.

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Fallen Princess - This is art too

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But personally I think this is infinately more interesting >>> The poetry!

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Why are some people smarter than others? - Repost

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