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We have a lot of work to do this hour, beginning with Vladimir Putin, who picked today of all days to abolish happiness in the world. Which was so unfortunate. Were going to get to that. And Big Joe Manchin breaking news, hes softening on the socalled Filibuster Rule. Hes embracing an idea that two of our guest have proposed. And he had a meeting with some democrats from texas who have come to washington to lobby him on the Voting Rights bills. Well have one of them join us. But heres what you missed. And this is big. Donald trump finally conceded tonight, he delivered the concession speech. H...

[music] i titled it the Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experience hardships and disappointmentsalong the way , i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect union, not a perfect unit but a moreperfect union. [music] good morning and welcome to a very special edition of Washington Post live. Im michelle noris, opinion columnist for washington pos and founding director of the race cd project and for this special conversation this morning i enjoyed by my dear friend elizabeth exander, poet, scholar and president of theandrew w mellon...

Were like 7000000000 people and we speak 7000. 00 languages. We need language for communication, but is language in that sense kind of preventing communication rather than facilitating it. I mean, since every language cost to some sort of a private club thats more or less outsiders. Right. Right. Thats always been one conception of language, is that collectively that people that speak a language, even a very its a little bit from person to person. You can think of as a kind of cultural artifact thats being created by the people or last week that way. Of course, the way we want to study languag...

Restricts access to any archie documentary on the us armed groups, flagging it as potentially offensive. We hear from the films producer we have to fold the notification system in place for this particular documentary, and that is word. This is something ive heard of. I think anger in armenia as crowds demanded the prime minister, quits over a peace deal with azerbaijan, that they see as a trail with your headlines, ill be back in the hour with another look, stay with us is our to International Language is what makes us human unique, so whats behind one of our species . Most incredible inventi...

Not only just just here in the united states, but lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every human being shares. But then theres also a separate nation about language, about how do you put it, what use do you put language . And those are 2 Different Things to different ways of looking at language. So if linguists can now think about the evolution of language, like what is language, or where is the language of all the ng . I mean, is it for them being divided into many different ones or will ...