Language
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I've seen him lose his intellect, his sense of humor, his
language
skills, but I've also seen this: He loves me, he loves my sons, he loves my brother and my mom and his caregivers.
And I'd like to submit to you that we have sequenced the human genome, we know everything about the sequence of the gene, the
language
of the gene, the alphabet of the gene, But we know nothing, but nothing, about the
language
and alphabet of form.
Maybe in Germany, in German language, it may be just "Aha!" (Laughter) But in Chinese language, it's really about 140 characters, means a paragraph, a story.
Weird phrases and words, even if you have a PhD of Chinese language, you can't understand them.
This was based on the experience of actually watching two people having a virulent argument in sign language, which produced no decibels to speak of, but affectively, psychologically, was a very loud experience.
We have an instinct for language, allowing us to share the fruits of our ingenuity and experience.
The scope of
language
has been augmented by the written, printed and electronic word.
So first, the body
language.
Others were virtual study groups, sometimes along
language
lines or along cultural lines, and on the bottom left there, you see our multicultural universal study group where people explicitly wanted to connect with people from other cultures.
We tried to answer this simple question: Can you find a unifying
language
that cuts across age and income and culture that will help people themselves find a new way of living, see spaces around them differently, think about the resources they use differently, interact differently?
Can we find that
language?
And the answer would appear to be yes, and the
language
would appear to be food.
Same language, timeline, et cetera.
I went to university in Johannesburg, South Africa, and I remember the first time a white friend of mine heard me speaking Setswana, the national
language
of Botswana.
What she was referring to was the fact that I could switch off the twang and slip into a native tongue, and so I chose to let her in on a few other things which locate me as a Motswana, not just by virtue of the fact that I speak a
language
or I have family there, but that a rural child lives within this shiny visage of fabulosity.
I invited the Motswana public into the story, my story, as a transgender person years ago, in English of course, because Setswana is a gender-neutral
language
and the closest we get is an approximation of "transgender."
But it's very important that words are at the center of politics, and all politicians know they have to try and control
language.
And it's important to know Igbo is a tonal language, and so they'll say the word "igwe" and "igwe": same spelling, one means "sky" or "heaven," and one means "bicycle" or "iron."
This is good, because
language
complicates things.
You know, we often think that
language
mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true.
The
language
actually makes the world in which we live.
And
language
can't be understood in its abstraction.
My story of Nigeria growing up was very different from the story I encountered in prison, and I had no
language
for it.
I was completely terrified, completely broken, and kept trying to find a new language, a new way to make sense of all of this.
Can we map that space, using the
language
of neutrinos or cosmic rays, taking the bounding condition of the body as its limit, but in complete reversal of, in a way, the most traditional Greek idea of pointing?
Can we do it another way, using the
language
of particles around a nucleus, and talk about the body as an energy center?
All she could do was parrot a garbled abbreviation in a
language
she didn't even understand.
Voice: In language, infinitely many words can be written with a small set of letters.
Then you have children for whom English is a second language, or whatever they're being taught in is a second
language.
So, we're really fascinated with body language, and we're particularly interested in other people's body
language.
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