Language Curiosities

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Graphs, Infographics
Most Spoken Languages In The World # http://graphs.net/201311/most-spoke-languages-in-the-world.html
Web Comics - page 12
Language
Evolution of Alphabets
Evolution of Global Alphabets. Gotta show this to my linguistics professor
YouTube
Who Invented Writing? - Speaking came thousands of years before writing. All writing that has developed since its invention can be traced back to two civilizations: Sumerian and Chinese. Matthew Winkler dissects the evolution of Sumerian cuneiform and explains the difference between writing those first symbols and simply drawing meaning.
Information is Beautiful
Rhetorical Fallacies: Errors and Manipulations of Rhetoric and Logical Thinking (1 of 4; source on slide 4)