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Hidden Brain
What Are the Implications of So Many Languages Dying?
John McQuater is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He says languages are very specific ways of seeing the world, of perceiving reality. Many languages make a distinction between things that are accidents and things that are intentional actions. It's an incredible tragedy that we're losing all of this linguistic diversity, he says.
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