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"The Real is accessed by language. The point of language is to keep language as an endlessly revisable process. Words don't have meanings -- they have histories, and they have futures, and they have memories."
--John Caputo
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There are so many words we still use that have barely changed over thousands of years. #TIL that "spatula" comes to English via Latin from from the Ancient Greek word σπάθη -- spáthē -- meaning "broad wooden or metal blade." It is also the linguistic ancestor of the French word "épée" (sword).
Language is stupid amazing.
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