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Panich52

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Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:29 PM Aug 2015

Linguist explains secret language of Gulliver's Travels [View all]

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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