Lesson from a 3-year-old linguistics prof: A friend quotes her language teacher's grandson

If I say “chikar mikoni,” that’s Farsi. If I say, “What are you doing?” that’s English.

English is English. Farsi is Farsi

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Category: Language

2 Responses

  1. 1

    A matter of opinion or a primer in the obvious?

    ;)

  2. 2
    Jan says:

    Hmm, well I think Farsi might be Swahili because mikononi means ‘in the hand’. But I will agree that English is English.

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