“If linguistics is the best window into the mind that we have, why wouldn’t you want to manipulate it for artistic purposes?”

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UTOPIAN FOR BEGINNERS

An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented.

BY JOSHUA FOER

“If linguistics is the best window into the mind that we have, why wouldn’t you want to manipulate it for artistic purposes?” he said to Lakoff.





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