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278: No Such Thing As A Herring-Okapi Hybrid

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Only Language Is No Recursion in It

There's a language called Tamayak or Tamayak spoken by the Tour egg. The only language is no recursion in it, which is the ability to insert phrases into phrases. I think that's something we should adopt in the English language. These guys, Pirahas are really cool. So their language is one of the most tonal languages in the world. It's different kind of tones as you're speaking. Doesn't matter what the consonants are, it's just the tones. And so it means that you could kind of talk with your mouthful or you can whistle words and stuff like that because it's just about the tones. When I was saying hap

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