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Going Native: Chapter 8

Going Native: Chapter 8

Clocks go 'tic tac', when something explodes it goes 'pataplum', and if you knock on the door you go 'tun, tun'

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Mar 23, 2023
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Previously: Going Native, Chapter 7- Part II: Marmite and merienda

Cockerels go kikiriki

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different cultures live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. Edward Sapir

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