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"William Samarin is a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto. He has done some extensive research and writing on this. He says, "Over a period of five years, I have taken part of meetings in Italy, Holland, Jamaica, Canada, and the United States. I have observed old fashioned Pentecostals and neo-Pentecostals, or Charismatics. I have been in small meetings in private homes as well as in mammoth public meetings. I have seen such different cultural settings as are found among Puerto Ricans of the Bronx, the snake handlers of the Appalachians, and the Russian Molikhans of Los Angeles. I have interviewed tongue speakers and tape recorded and analyzed countless samples of tongues. In every case, glossolaliaturns out to be linguistic nonsense. In spite of superficial similarities, glossolaliais fundamentally not language."
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:35:17 +0000

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