#im reading a book from 1964 so i don't know if these are maybe outdated terms
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how am I supposed to take linguistics seriously when everything sounds so silly? It started out with diphthongs and fricatives, but then I'm expected to simply accept the fact that the bow-wow theory, the pooh-pooh theory, the ding-dong theory and the yo-he-ho theory are all completely normal terms???
#im reading a book from 1964 so i don't know if these are maybe outdated terms#but the fact that some person contemplated what to call these theories decided that this was it#humans are so silly#linguistics#post by moi
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