So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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The book is ostensibly about language, but the message I got out of it is that you can ask the question, "Where do you draw the line?" to everything. And thinking about the answer to that makes you reflect more deeply about your own beliefs and assumptions.
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John Mcwhorter
Reader88, January 4, 2010
The book is ostensibly about language, but the message I got out of it is that you can ask the question, "Where do you draw the line?" to everything. And thinking about the answer to that makes you reflect more deeply about your own beliefs and assumptions.