the boundaries of language

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Hello, we're talking about language...

David Landsberg Landsberg pointed me to this clip of Stephen Fry and Hugh 'House' Laurie on some issues in linguistics, including the flexibility and productivity of language. Enjoy!

Labels: Linguistics, Misc

# posted by Aidan @ 8:51 PM

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