Who Makes the Rules of Language? | The Language of Language
Published: October 12, 2026
Duration: 41:22
Who makes the rules of language?
Settle into The Language of Language, a thoughtful sleep story about the words we use, the rules we learn without noticing, and the people who tried to put a living language on the page.
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. The sentence makes no sense, yet somehow we know its grammar works. Tonight, that small puzzle opens a journey through the strange work of using words to describe words.
In ancient Mesopotamia, pupils press lists of words into damp clay. In India, Panini builds a grammar with rules about...
Settle into The Language of Language, a thoughtful sleep story about the words we use, the rules we learn without noticing, and the people who tried to put a living language on the page.
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. The sentence makes no sense, yet somehow we know its grammar works. Tonight, that small puzzle opens a journey through the strange work of using words to describe words.
In ancient Mesopotamia, pupils press lists of words into damp clay. In India, Panini builds a grammar with rules about...