Status Updates From An Introduction to Language

So. We meet again, diphthong...

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. -- Leigh Hunt, 'On Talking Nonsense,' 1820

Whom are you? said he, for he had been to night school. -- George Ade, 'The Steel Box,' in Bang! Bang!, 1928

So concerned was Kilwardby with Universal Grammar that he excluded considerations of the characteristics of particular languages, which he believed to be as "irrelevant to a science of grammar as the material of the measuring rod or the physical characteristics of objects were to geometry." Kilwardby was perhaps too much of a universalist.

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