This post is a continuation of my previous post “Changes in the Natural Philosophy of Language“. I will discuss some ideas introduced by the first of the three researchers who I mentioned there: Ken Stanley. His work is on the topic of evolutionary systems — that is, systems that resemble the process of biological evolution.…

Today is my 1000-Wordiversary for German since I started learning it 50 days ago. For the first time in my life, the effect of my language study habits is rapid, repeatable, and holistic. The fact that I had no sense whatever for the German language 50 days ago, and now am reading somewhat effectively in…

You will have to forgive me that I have no citable sources in bringing up this topic today, only intuition and anecdote. I am traveling to Europe for several months in late July, and one thing I consider as a linguist (it goes without saying) is the language component. Europe in particular has developed a…