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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Semiology, Semiotics  11 Comments

November 1, 2019August 14, 2019

How Language Began – Daniel Everett

Daniel Everett’s ‘How Language Began’ might as well be called ‘why Chomsky is wrong.’ It’s also a very compelling argument.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized  1 Comment

January 11, 2019December 5, 2018

What Language is – John McWhorter

John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

June 1, 2018May 5, 2018

Talking Back, Talking Black – John McWhorter

Few topics are as controversial as the state of AAVE in the USA.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

January 5, 2018January 6, 2018

Words on the move – John McWhorter

John McWhorter knows what he is talking about, and in this volume he goes over much of what people not only do not understand about language, but what many so desperately need to learn about it.

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