How Languages Change with Research Linguist Daniel Hieber

Profoundly Pointless by Cloud10

Jul 16, 202632:39Society & Culture

Every word and every language has an origin story. What originally started out as a way to describe a specific type of tree, is now what we call a book. In this episode of Profoundly Pointless we explore how languages ch...

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