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Watch Your Mouth

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Words and Their Meanings

Dictionaries create an illusion that there's such thing as a language that stands still when really it's the nature of human language to change. Each generation hears things and interprets things slightly differently from the previous one. And there's never been a language that didn't do that. The evolution of words and their meanings is what gives us this flowering of hundreds or thousands of languages.

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