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Pardon me while I geek out about linguistics. :D
Earlier this week I finished reading The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter. I picked up the book thinking that I didn’t really know much about historical linguistics, but once I started reading, I realized I was wrong. The earlier chapters of the book established things I was already quite familiar with: it all started with one big proto-language, languages change over time, languages are dialects with an army, dialects are on a continuum, etc. It was a little basic, but a good review of topics I learned about in my Romance Linguistics class, but with broader scope.
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Earlier this week I finished reading The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter. I picked up the book thinking that I didn’t really know much about historical linguistics, but once I started reading, I realized I was wrong. The earlier chapters of the book established things I was already quite familiar with: it all started with one big proto-language, languages change over time, languages are dialects with an army, dialects are on a continuum, etc. It was a little basic, but a good review of topics I learned about in my Romance Linguistics class, but with broader scope.
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