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Steven Pinker - The Language Instinct (1994)

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Some people worry that slang will somehow corrupt the language. We should be so lucky.

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Language is obviously as different from other animals' communication systems as the elephant's trunk is different from other animals' nostrils.

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We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

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Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

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