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Linguistics is fun because you wonder why LanguageTM is the way it is, then you research it, and then you realize human language is at once the Sturdiest and MOST FRAGILE thing humans have ever created.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
"Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" by John McWhorter
Samples of text from Shakespeare's Sonnets & Plays, Folger Shakespeare Library
Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" prologue Middle English text, via Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue
MIT "Bilingual Beowulf" Old English text and modern English translation https://www.mit.edu/~jrising/webres/beowulf.pdf

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"Scheming Weasel" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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