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Watch Your Mouth

Hidden Brain

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Language and the Clouds in the Sky

There was no way of transcribing an approximation of what people said and nobody would have thought of doing it. Language, as it evolved, was just talking to an extent that can be very hard for we literate people to imagine. The fact is that language change can always go in one of many directions. So if you took a bunch of those tendencies, you could make up say the English of 50 years from now but some of the things would just be complete chance.

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