
62: Language in Spaaaaace (with Hannah Little)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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What Would Aliens Be Like?
In last episode, you also talked about Dutch kids and English kids and counting. The idea was that in English, we say 24, but in Dutch, they say 420. I keep getting this question about what would alien languages be like? And I'm sure that you've got a lot of reading on that. It's really, really unsatisfying to say they could literally look like anything.
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