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<title>No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.]]></description>
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<title>What Part of ‘Illegal’ Don’t You Understand?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[America has a big problem with illegal immigration, but a big part of it stems from the word 


illegal.


 It pollutes the debate. It blocks solutions. Used dispassionately and technically, there is nothing wrong with it. Used as an irreducible modifier for a large and largely decent group of people, it is badly damaging. And as a code word for racial and ethnic hatred, it is detestable.]]></description>
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<title>Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living without Numbers or Time</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Brazil_s_Pirah_Tribe_Living_without_Numbers_or_Time</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Pirah

 people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world -- and also one of the 
most hotly debated by linguists.]]></description>
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<title>The Word of the Year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Oxford University Press made public its word of the year in November: it


s 


carbon neutral.


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<title>'Civil' Disobedience Spreads -- 'NYT' Adjusts Language on Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Via RawStory: The war in Iraq is, in addition to being a civil war, an occupation, a Baathist insurgency, a sectarian conflict, a front in a war against terrorists, a scene of criminal gangsterism and a cycle of vengeance. We believe 'civil war' should not become reductionist shorthand for a war that is colossally complicated."]]></description>
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<title>A Voluble Visit with Two Talking Apes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two bonobo chimpanzees in Iowa are changing how scientists think about the nature of human language. Kanzi and Panbanisha understand thousands of words. They use sentences, talk on the phone, and they like to gossip.]]></description>
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<title>Red-Flag Rhetoric</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When you hear someone pontificating and they preface their conclusion with: ''If I understand it correctly


'' or ''if memory serves


,'' 90 percent of the time the person talking doesn't have a clue what they're talking about. You'll find many examples on popular talk radio, which serves as an echo chamber for minds that haven't had oxygen in quite a while.]]></description>
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<title>Chomsky Challenge: Bird Said to Grasp Key Aspect of Human Language</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The European starling, a tiny virtuoso, has the ability to learn and recognize a feature of grammar that has long been thought to be unique to human languages, researchers report in a new study.

Chomsky isn't buying it, however.]]></description>
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<title>Chirac walks out of speech in English</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Jacques Chirac of France stormed out of a European Union summit last night after a French employers' leader said that English was "the language of European business".]]></description>
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