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Languages and Linguistics

Panich52

(5,829 posts) Wed Aug 12, 2015, 01:29 PM Aug 2015

Linguist explains secret language of Gulliver's Travels

Linguist explains secret language of Gulliver's Travels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150811132548.htm

A linguist is proposing a solution to a centuries-old puzzle: What sparked the 'nonsense' language in 'Gulliver's Travels'? Authors of a new report now say that the mystery words are, in fact, variations of Hebrew.

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Linguist explains secret language of Gulliver's Travels (Original Post) Panich52 Aug 2015 OP

Interesting but not that convincing 6chars Oct 2015 #1

6chars

(3,967 posts)

1. Interesting but not that convincing

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 06:13 PM

Oct 2015

are there more examples than just what is in the link? the examples there are pretty speculative.

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