Episode #117 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 2

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  This is the second episode of the podcast that was released today.

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  So just to start, I want to rephrase something we talked about a couple episodes ago,

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  because I think it's really important to frame our discussion here today.

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  There are practically an infinite number of possible combinations of words that you can cobble together and read,

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  but it wouldn't be until those words adhere to a very specific,

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  underlying structure that they would work or have any semblance of meaning to anyone at all.

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  Language has a structure, and we can observe this structure, we can study this structure,

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  and if you're a structural linguist, you may be able to predict how that structure is going to change in the future.

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  Well, to many of these thinkers that follow up on the methods proposed by Fernand Esauceur,

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  what it seems like to them is that culture has a specific underlying structure as well,

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