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Quotation of the Day for December 12, 2009"Knowing about ubiquity of complex language across individuals and cultures and the single mental design underlying them all, no speech seems foreign to me, even when I cannot understand a word. The banter among New Guinean highlanders in the film of their first contact with the rest of the world, the motions of a sign language interpreter, the prattle of little girls in a Tokyo playground - I imagine seeing through the rhythms to the structures underneath, and sense that we all have the same minds." - Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Dec. 9, 2009 |
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