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Watch Your Mouth
Hidden Brain
Language and the Clouds in the Sky
There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. Language, as it evolved, was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. It really is an illusion that what language is is something that sits still. There's a way of speaking right. And the way you speak right is not by speaking the way the people around you in your life speak, but by speaking the word itself.
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