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The Language of the Gods
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The Language of the Gods

[...] Sanskrit is one of the world’s oldest languages—traces of it are found in Akkadian (the language of ancient [...]
Agnieszka Rostkowska
The Happy Minimalists
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The Happy Minimalists

[...] language. [...]
Maciej Świetlik
Looking Through the Language Lens
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Looking Through the Language Lens

[...] What language are you learning now? Well, I don’t learn new languages any more. [...]
Łukasz Kaniewski, Tomasz Stawiszyński
Language That Brings Freedom
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Language That Brings Freedom

[...] Its title in the original language is Caitaani Mũtharaba-Inĩ. [...]
Agata Kasprolewicz
Comrade Batman
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Comrade Batman

[...] The Soviet language – just like other languages – programmed the way in which people thought and behaved. [...]
Victor Martinovich
Script Hunting
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Script Hunting

[...] languages would get confused. [...]
Jan Pelczar
How to Build a Nation
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How to Build a Nation

[...] As he argued in O jazyku českém [On the Czech Language], “only the nation whose language has not completely [...]
Agnieszka Fiedorowicz
Oh, To Be a Jargonaut!
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Oh, To Be a Jargonaut!

[...] According to one source, little Bertrand Boulanger used a language of his own, unintelligible to everyone [...]
Maciej Świetlik
How Encyclopaedias Die
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How Encyclopaedias Die

[...] the tribes’ elderly, we are witnessing the disappearance of the last link between knowledge, tradition and language [...]
Julia Fiedorczuk
More Than a Thousand Words
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More Than a Thousand Words

[...] The plan was that the language could be learned quickly and easily. [...]
Andrzej Kula