Vehicles are simple compared to political philosophies. They're also mostly context-free; understanding a political tweet might require reading an entire thread, together with a history book. I know of at least one case where someone interpreted the sending of certain flowers as a death threat (and I'm not entirely sure, in the context of that... See more

There is no way, strictly, to ask Quine's question in Nahuatl. The language lacks a term for "is." The language similarly lacks what we English speakers call "words."

As mentioned in the previous chapter, instead of words, the Aztecs had nuclear clauses—meaning that each basic component of a sentence could be its own sentence. As a result of this

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