I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language
Andrea Moro, "I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language"
English | ISBN: 0231177410 | 2016 | 96 pages | EPUB | 564 KB
English | ISBN: 0231177410 | 2016 | 96 pages | EPUB | 564 KB
There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood…. On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.―Descartes
Language is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are determined by laws of nature, they have not developed through the accumulation of historical accidents.―Noam Chomsky
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