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I love this British take on the American accent (and also culture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ
by orthecreedence 9y ago
I love this British take on the American accent (and also culture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ&t=9s
Linguistics has always fascinated me. It's almost like a living, breathing, evolving entity that uses the need to exchange information as its "body" rather than taking on some physical form. I'm sure there are other things that take esoteric forms like this, but language is a very visible one.
- evincarofautumn 9y agoI’ve always thought of languages as living organisms as well, just operating on a very different substrate than we do—a collection of memes, essentially. They evolve, breed (usually through invasion and colonisation), grow, shrink, die, go dormant, and get resurrected.