Language in sentence

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When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend.

Again, it's useful to think about this analogy with language.

It's a language.

And it's the poetic of that language that I'm interested in, which is why I began to explore this concept of erotic intelligence.

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What I'm here to talk with you about today is an intriguing new hypothesis and some surprisingly powerful new findings that I've been working on about the link between the structure of the language you speak and how you find yourself with the propensity to save.

Let me tell you a little bit about savings rates, a little bit about language, and then I'll draw that connection.

Now that we see these huge differences in savings rates, how is it possible that language might have something to do with these differences?

What my language would have forced me to do, instead of just telling you, "This is my uncle," is to tell you a tremendous amount of additional information.

My language would force me to tell you whether or not this was an uncle on my mother's side or my father's side, whether this was an uncle by marriage or by birth, and if this man was my father's brother, whether he was older than or younger than my father.

So many of you know, in this room, that English is a Germanic language.

It is the only Germanic language that requires this.

For example, most other Germanic language speakers feel completely comfortable talking about rain tomorrow by saying, "Morgen regnet es," quite literally to an English ear, "It rain tomorrow."

Could how you speak about time, could how your language forces you to think about time, affect your propensity to behave across time?

You speak English, a futured language.

If, on the other hand, you speak a futureless language, the present and the future, you speak about them identically.

And interestingly enough, there are pockets of futureless language speakers situated all over the world.

This is a pocket of futureless language speakers in Northern Europe.

Interestingly enough, when you start to crank the data, these pockets of futureless language speakers all around the world turn out to be, by and large, some of the world's best savers.

And what I'm going to do is form statistical matched pairs between families that are nearly identical on every dimension that I can measure, and then I'm going to explore whether or not the link between language and savings holds even after controlling for all of these levels.

Now even after all of this granular level of control, do futureless language speakers seem to save more?

Yes, futureless language speakers, even after this level of control, are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given year.

Yes, by the time they retire, futureless language speakers, holding constant their income, are going to retire with 25 percent more in savings.

Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families, and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire, and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter.

I wrote down and measured everything, and I said, in nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Tamil is a south Indian language, and I said, can Tamil-speaking children in a south Indian village learn the biotechnology of DNA replication in English from a streetside computer?

I got an educational impossibility, zero to 30 percent in two months in the tropical heat with a computer under the tree in a language they didn't know doing something that's a decade ahead of their time.

Someone had accused me of being North Korean, so they tested my Chinese language abilities, and asked me tons of questions.

Even after learning a new language and getting a job, their whole world can be turned upside down in an instant.

English was so important in South Korea, so I had to start learning my third language.

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