While wandering around chasing the ghosts of some of you and some of these ideas, I found this reference to a special Sci Am that some of you may have seen, a whole edition on human language. Milum, did you ever get it? Anyone else see it? I'll try to find it in the library.
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http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=72418