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The Search for the Perfect Language
- Author: Umberto Eco
- Year: 1997
- Pages: 400
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From the early dark ages to the renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the garden of eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an investigation into the history of this idea.
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