One commentator called the appearance the biggest TV event since David Frost interviewed Richard Nixon in 1977.

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Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

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