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What’s a Language, Anyway?

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Mr. Lakhaney

The realities of speech are much more complicated than the words used to describe it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/difference-between-language-dialect/424704/?mc_cid=84d899c964&mc_eid=34e2887073

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