John McWhorter on "The Power of Babel"

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Linguist John McWhorter tells Steve Paulson that he became fascinated with languages when he was a child. He says all six thousand contemporary languages evolved from a single source and that there’s no such thing as a pure language.  They all keep changing all the time.  McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language.”