Yesterday I was quite amused when my Semantics professor said that Language is a chicken. It can be cooked in several different ways, with several different sauces, in several different dishes, but it's always chicken.
Then, in another class, I found out she was quite right. There's always been that stupefying question, what came first? the egg or the chicken? Well, there's also such a question with language, because language change or language acquisition presuposes the pre-existence of that language. But if we go far far back, to the first people who acquired language, where did they acquire from? Was it an egg or a chicken? Moreover, this other professor also told us that because of language we are the only species that can choke on food. So, language is mortal, chicken is mortal, and you can never tell what you'll learn in any particular day.
At least now I can blame the writer's block on my being vegetarian.
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enhorabuena mi profesora!!
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