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Steven Pinker

“Sometimes it is not easy to find any words that properly convey a thought. When we hear or read, we usually remember the gist, not the exact words, so there has to be such a thing as a gist that is not the same as a bunch of words.”

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
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