Trask

Seth Lerer

language is a type of curry and new words are relishes that spice it ip

veranda metaphor

language is like a veranda which brings together disparate elements from different origins and keeps us fry and shaded when experiencing the outside

Trask

disagrees with the fact that there are biological reasons for language change

says things like mouth/lip shape and climate changing language is nonsense

Xhosa accent

click language that people wouldn’t be able to speak if they weren’t born speaking it

stadialism

the idea that culture moves through stages

people thought European languages were moving toward a state of perfection which means that other languages were inferior