Linguistics has always fascinated me. It's almost like a living, breathing, evolving entity that uses the need to exchange information as its "body" rather than taking on some physical form. I'm sure there are other things that take esoteric forms like this, but language is a very visible one.
I’ve always thought of languages as living organisms as well, just operating on a very different substrate than we do—a collection of memes, essentially. They evolve, breed (usually through invasion and colonisation), grow, shrink, die, go dormant, and get resurrected.
Linguistics has always fascinated me. It's almost like a living, breathing, evolving entity that uses the need to exchange information as its "body" rather than taking on some physical form. I'm sure there are other things that take esoteric forms like this, but language is a very visible one.