When did “American English” emerge? Did linguistic independence from Britain appear before political independence?
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He was proud of himself for it, too. He couldn’t resist pointing out that that he wrote the entire thing in “Aryan” (“Iranian”, i.e. Old Persian) instead of Aramaic like monuments normally were in the Persian Empire.
What’s the difference between verb tense and verb aspect?
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Darius the Great was inventing an entire writing system for Old Persian and sticking it on a giant monument right around the same time the early Romans were learning about this thing called “writing” from the Greeks
Can brain structure alone explain why we have language?
How human languages came to exist is an unsolved mystery within science
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