The Language Instinct
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513 pages
From the Preface... I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kind of understanding that we call science, but the news has been kept a secret. For the language lover, I hope to show that there is a world of elegance and richness in quotidian speech that far outshines the local curiosities of etymologies, unusual words, and fine points of usage. For the reade
ISBN: 9780141980775
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Charlie Munger
Finance & Investing"Says that human language ability is not just learned, it is deeply buried - to a considerable extent - in the genome."
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