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565 - John Colapinto (Author/Journalist/Sophisticated Gentleman)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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The Pitaan and the Evolution of Language

"There is no such thing as a primitive language," he says. "It's an incredibly complicated mental calculation and it's a astonishingly complicated, must go skeletal maneuver to create" The Pitaan had their terminology for existence in terms of the candle flickering going in and out of darkness - so they could feel that they existed.

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