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“Chomsky's writings are 'classics' in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and I belong to a species with a remarkable ability: we can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“The only languages which do not change are dead ones.”
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“The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don’t they imitate their parents’ habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?),”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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