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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Cognitive Wherewithal for Language
Modern languages are created by people, but most of the time they are not invented by people. To explain to you what this new word means, i'm going to oftentimes be using words that already exist in my language. Thee's something that people like ar warf and supera might have referred to. His world view the kind of themes that permeate throughout a language get reproduced in some sense because they are liine with our cultural norms and all that.
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