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Brain of Terror
A Procrustean Thesis Awaits Its Theseus
There is only one language - the human language. Vile linguistic
bigots may try to pretend that English, Chinese and Navajo are somehow
separate "languages", but they merely reveal their own ignorance and
stupidity. Far more unites these three meaning-delivery systems than
divides them. They all use vowels and consonants, they all have ways
of referring to the past, present and future, of expressing negation
and hypothesis, of capturing the world and its complexities. The
differences between meaning-delivery systems are so small, the
similarities so vast, that we can reach only one conclusion: Language
does not exist. And if you claim you can't understand Chinese or
Navajo or Maori, you're obviously a dangerous bigot in serious need of
a decade or two in an arctic re-education camp.
Well, separate languages do exist, of course, just as separate
races do. The analogy between language and race isn't perfect, but
it's illuminating all the same. Some people claim that race is a false...
