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The Function of Language
From the moment a child is born, it encounters language play. I wrote a whole book at once called Language Play. It's available on my website. What about jokes? I suppose if you haven't looked at it yet, I don't know if you're able to comment on it,. but what's the point of jokes?What do you think about that? Well, it's part of a bigger issue. What is the function of language? Now, look language up in a dictionary, and it will say the function oflanguage is to communicate ideas. Fine, all right, there's a lot of that. That misses out a second function of language, which is to express identity
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