Language
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But what really interests me, especially nowadays and because of what's happening politically around the world, is the
language
that's used, the narrative, the discourse, the images, the actual words.
I can order foreign
language
books in the middle of the night, shop for Parisian macarons, and leave video messages that get picked up later.
This subject constitutes just one chapter of my latest book, which compares traditional, small, tribal societies with our large, modern societies, with respect to many topics such as bringing up children, growing older, health, dealing with danger, settling disputes, religion and speaking more than one
language.
Emily Dickinson was able to convey it in language, Goya in an image.
It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed of many other languages, that we use this same word, depression, to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.
If you have a very good model of a
language
which is used, if you have a very good model of a document, how well they are structured.
There is a word for "bossy," for little girls, in every
language
there's one.
Words to cover every conceivable sexual feature, position and preference, a body of
language
that was rich enough to make up the body of the woman you see on this page.
Even by educated people, who often feel more comfortable talking about sex in a foreign
language
than they do in their own tongue.
When my daughter turned 13, became a teenager, she stopped speaking English, and she began speaking this new
language.
It's a digital
language.
RP: Now she's going to go on like this for about three to four hours, and the idea is not for her to say everything that the target is going to want to say, but the idea is to cover all the different combinations of the sounds that occur in the
language.
So our team built Honolulu Answers, which is a super-simple search interface where you enter a search term or a question and get back plain
language
answers that drive a user towards action.
And because of this, they have a lot of difficulty with
language.
And when you get to language, you see that it becomes a word whose look, the way it looks and the way it sounds, has absolutely nothing to do with what it started with, or what it represents, which is the bowl of soup.
And grammar is incredibly powerful, because grammar is this one component of
language
which takes this finite vocabulary that all of us have and allows us to convey an infinite amount of information, an infinite amount of ideas.
Now, meaning is really the underbelly, in some sense, of
language.
It's what comes after thought but before
language.
This is —(Applause)— this is a representation of this sentence without
language.
The second thing is, if I wasn't an English speaker, if I was speaking in some other language, this map would actually hold true in any
language.
So long as the questions are standardized, the map is actually independent of
language.
I was trying to convert language, convert sentences in English into sentences in FreeSpeech, and vice versa, and back and forth.
And I realized that this particular configuration, this particular way of representing language, it allowed me to actually create very concise rules that go between FreeSpeech on one side and English on the other.
In about 1997, about 15 years back, there were a group of scientists that were trying to understand how the brain processes language, and they found something very interesting.
Now I don't know why that's the case, but my guess is that that's because when you learn a
language
as an adult, you almost invariably learn it through your native language, or through your first
language.
So what's interesting about FreeSpeech is that when you create a sentence or when you create language, a child with autism creates
language
with FreeSpeech, they're not using this support language, they're not using this bridge
language.
Is it possible to use FreeSpeech not for children with autism but to teach
language
to people without disabilities?
And I built an app out of it, a game out of it, in which children can play with words and with a reinforcement, a sound reinforcement of visual structures, they're able to learn
language.
Now, it seems to me that
language
is really the brain's invention to convert this rich, multi-dimensional thought on one hand into speech on the other hand.
Now what's interesting is that we do a lot of work in information nowadays, and almost all of that is done in the
language
domain.
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