And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue ha — Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

— Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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