The Search for the Perfect Language
by Umberto Eco
400 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780006863786
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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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