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I love the 10,000 connections net

1000 Languages

The Mandarin word for “www” is wanweiwang, a loan translation meaning literally “10,000 connections net”.

- from a review of Peter K. Austin’s new book One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost in The New Scientist.

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from Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom!'

"And he overseeing it, riding peacefully about on his horse while he learned the language (that meager and fragile thread, Grandfather said, by which the little surface corners and edges of men's secret and solitary lives may be joined for an instant now and then before sinking back into the darkness where the spirit cried for the first time and was not heard and will cry for the last time and will not be heard then either)..."

I love the 10,000 connections net

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from Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom!'