91: Linguistic Time Machine, part 2: Prehistory
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We're climbing back into the linguistic time machine and taking a look at language in the long view. We'll find out what language was like
- 100,000 years ago
- 1 million years ago
- 10 million years ago
and then jump into the future
- 100 years
- 1,000 years, and
- 10,000 years from now.
What will we find?
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