Music is a universal language. Or so musicians like to claim. “With music,” they’ll say, “you can communicate across cultural and linguistic boundaries in ways that you can’t with ordinary languages ...

And what more? Even a whole language teaching curriculum has already been created based on it. The universal common ground of languages is the Universal Linguistic Platform which is a mental sphere ...

Legend has it that once upon a time, people all spoke the same language. They decided to build a city and a tower as high as possible, to get closer to God. God, annoyed by this act of defiance by ...