Writing tagged: ‘language’
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Book review: ‘Proto’ by Laura Spinney
How one ancient language went global.
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Charles Darwin on the family tree of languages
In ‘On the Origin of Species’, Darwin hypothesises that the family tree of languages must closely reflect the family tree of the different races of mankind that speak them.
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Remind you of anything?
Languages evolve in sudden leaps, not creeps.
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Disinherit the Wind
Darwin’s famous flatulence nothing but burps?