Between the world and the word

Mar 25, 2022

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The mission of language is to better seize and describe the world. Left to their own devices, languages adapt to their environment, grow and multiply.

Nevertheless, they remain economical. The linguistic footprint stays low. Aristotle noted that the synonyms and the homonyms (and homophones, by implication) of a language are the expression of an anomalou…

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