768. Zac Smith
Otherppl with Brad Listi
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What's the Difference Between a Dog and a Word?
Most of things an language, like words and are arbitrary. So there's a big thing about the arbitrariness of the mapping from the word dog to what a dog is. I now find myself getting fixated on this notion of who the first human being to utter the word dog was. And then i'm also fascinated by how there are certain patterns that repeat across different languages. It's reall quoal. People ye gibbl into that stuff.
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