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Similarities Between Languages
Stephen Fry and psycholinguist Dr. Wolfgang Klein of the Max Planck Institute discuss the birth of philology, the relationships between languages and the work of noted scholar Jacob Grimm, of the Brothers Grimm, more famously known for his fairy tales.
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