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Linguistic Theory

Linguistic Theory

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Apr 08, 2017
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Originally posted to sff.people.lwe on March 23, 2006:

I have a theory -- not a very serious one -- that languages are optimized for specific uses. German's good for giving orders, Italian's good for …

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