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perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living,
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Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects.
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Volume 1
Translated by Jean Paul Richter
1888
