The Reverend W.M. Norment was over 90 years old when he recalled how, at Andrew Jackson’s funeral, the late president’s beloved parrot “got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.” Poll, the parrot in question, lacked the subtlety of tact required […] The post Language Without Mind appeared first on TomKlingenstein.com.
