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“Language is simply alive, like an organism… Words are the cells of language, moving the great body, on legs. Language grows and evolves, leaving fossils behind. The individual words are like different species of animals. Mutations occur. Words fuse, and then mate. Hybrid words and wild varieties or compound words are the progeny.” — Lewis Thomas, “Living Language,” The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, (1974, 1984), 106.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:51:20 +0000

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