Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Incidentally, Peter Trudgill's book (which is not about politics) "Millennia of Language Change: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics" changed the way I think about this stuff. https://t.co/MRJZqWCcQL — PolitiTweet.org

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You want to talk Great Stagnation — the Acheulian hand axe was invented ~1.75 million years ago and remained state of the art until about 160,000 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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He says that in general, relatively small and insular speech communities tend to develop new complexities that model the quirks of various individuals who are influential for one reason or another. Big speech communities tend to flatten things out to reduce misunderstanding. — PolitiTweet.org

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