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David Bellos: Linguistic Diversity IS Language April 7, 2012

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In his book, "Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and The Meaning of Everything," master translator David Bellos argues that "Babel tells the wrong story. The most likely original use of human speech was to be different, not the same."

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