& Julian? Mitigating (the convincing)
Bubbles? Trying to stop it.
You can always 'sum up' what someone's statements try to do with an utterance (clause, sentence, paragraph...) What was the purpose/meaning of that piece of speech?
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remnants of aliens in language? (how far back can the) "UFO's" existence can be supported? when did the word(s) for "UFO" enter each language?
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WORLD CUP 400AD: Roman Empire, Celts, Native Americans, Aboriginals, Africans, Arabs Japanese, East Asian ...
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Doesn't every word (and clause) have a first person that has said it?
who are these people?
why does it stick?
who repeats it?
when in our lifetimes does that happen (and w/ what frequency per time period of a human's life)?
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***Difference btwn derivational (English) + synthetic (Spanish) languages?
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y do we assume we talk for a reason? are we just trying to improve a social condition (or variable: D, S and R (Brown & Levinson) sometimes? we're not always delivery an invitation, request, apology, etc... Sometimes the society, the hearer or the speaker talks due to obligation, to a reason.
