Money and language are most importantly a method of exchanging otherwise incomparable items and experiences.

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Researchers in the department of speech and language therapy have worked out a method of tracing tongue movements.

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Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.

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The method starts by making use of well-established linguistic data on words and grammar within these language families, and building "family trees" of those languages.

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After all, it was California that 11 years ago threw out the tried-and-true reading method known as phonics for a new, faddish method called whole language.

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Whole Language doesn't teach youngsters to sound out syllables and words as the traditional phonics method does.

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