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Re:Tom Wolfe takes on linguistics by mcguire on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @10:35AM (#12165877)
On the other hand, if your idea of "the nature of language" doesn't include how listeners understand a statement then you are probably not thinking about the nature of language.
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Re:Tom Wolfe takes on linguistics by dilemma on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:52AM (#12166466)
Human minds are not search engines. They do not run code.
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