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The Skeptics Guide #911 - Dec 24 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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What Is Intense Grammar?

It's believed it might have something to do with the movement of your tongue or the ancient language of the clock. Also, it might be related to the physics of sound. It opens like a fundamental question about what is innate? Right. Like how do we even define in nateness, especially when it comes to linguistics, which is so heavily learned? Yeah. I've read one very interesting theory about one way to look at like, what is the innate grammar? What would that be? And so what, how could we get at that? So one way is to look at creoles. Because creoles are any language where children basically speak of conglomeration of their two different parent

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