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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Joshua Foer

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Keiner, der eine Kommunikationsform entwerfen wollte, würde jemals mit Englisch, Mandarin oder einer der mehr als sechstausend gesprochenen Sprachen enden.

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