Wednesday, 5 February 2014

The History of the English Language, Animated





“The Sun never sets on the English language.”
The history of language, that peculiar human faculty that Darwin believed washalf art and half instinct, is intricately intertwined with the evolution of our species, our capacity for invention, ourunderstanding of human biology, and even the progress of our gender politics. From the fine folks at Open University — who previously gave us these delightful 60-second animated syntheses of the world’s major religionsphilosophy’s greatest thought experiments, and the major creative movements in design — comes this infinitely entertaining and illuminating animated history of the English language in 10 minutes:

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