The New York Times recently published a list of "Pinkerisms"--selections from Steven Pinker’s writings on language, evolution and the mind.
Here's one:
“Words and Rules,” 1999
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn “x” (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn’t vn kn whr th vwls r).
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