Max Müller
Americannoun
noun
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Back in the 1870s, Oxford professor Friedrich Max Müller argued that "there is between the whole animal kingdom on the one side, and man, even in his lowest state, on the other, a barrier which no animal has ever crossed, and that barrier is —language."
From Salon
Waltz down cobblestone Hauptstraße to Weingut Max Müller, an award-winning winery and cellar built in 1692 to serve the bishops, whose monastery occupied the top floor.
From Salon
Weingut Max Müller welcomes a new generation of winemakers.
From Salon
They also nod to a recent theory about the origin of language in animal sounds that Carroll's friend, the philologist Max Müller, scorned as 'the bow-wow theory':
From Nature
The second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.”
From New York Times
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