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They placed a Norman king on the English throne and for three centuries, French was the language of the British royalty.
As the language expanded, English speakers quickly realized what to do if they wanted to sound sophisticated: they would use words that had come from French or Latin.
Their books remain invisible to readers of the world's most published language.
If you learn the language, you can go out and tell your stories.
To make it easy for our physicists across the world to access the ever-expanding big data stored at CERN without traveling, the networks needed to be talking with the same language.
In fact, let's try to express it a bit more formally in pseudocode, English-like syntax that resembles a programming language.
One in 90 among us experience graphemes, the written elements of language, like letters, numerals, and punctuation marks, as saturated with color.
By contrast, the sound units of language, or phonemes, trigger synestetic tastes.
If geometry is the language the universe is written in, then this sketch seems to say we can exist within all its elements.
Dyslexia is caused by a phonological processing problem, meaning people affected by it have trouble not with seeing language but with manipulating it.
The continuum and distribution of dyslexia suggests a broader principle to bear in mind as we look at how the brains of those with dyslexia process language.
The left hemisphere is generally in charge of language and, ultimately, reading, while the right typically handles spatial activities.
But those with dyslexia can physically change their brain and improve their reading with an intensive, multi-sensory intervention that breaks the language down and teaches the reader to decode based on syllable types and spelling rules.
There are a lot of ways this marvelous language of ours, English, doesn't make sense.
Believe it or not, English used to be an even harder language to learn than it is today.
Twenty-five hundred years ago, English and German were the same language.
After the age of roughly 15, it's almost impossible to learn a new language without an accent and without slipping up here and there as we all know from what language classes are like.
Imagine running up against a language with eggru and gat on the one hand, and then with other words, all you have to do is add 's' and get days and stones.
To many, one of the coolest things about "Game of Thrones" is that the inhabitants of the Dothraki Sea have their own real language.
And Dothraki came hot on the heels of the real language that the Na'vi speak in "Avatar," which, surely, the Na'vi needed when the Klingons in "Star Trek" have had their own whole language since 1979.
"Conlang" is short for "constructed language."
But we can see the difference between vocabulary alone and what makes a real language from a look at how Tolkien put together grand old Elvish, a conlang with several thousands words.
That is, a real language has grammar.
There's no such thing as a language that's the same today as it was a thousand years ago.
When the first Elves awoke at Cuiviénen, in their new language, the word for "people" was "kwendi," but in the language of one of the groups that moved away, Teleri, over time, "kwendi" became "pendi," with the "k" turning into a "p."
The truth is, though, that Elvish is more a sketch for a real language than a whole one.
The second one was written by an algorithm that took all the language from my Facebook feed on one day and then regenerated it algorithmically, according to methods that I'll describe a little bit later on.
So, you give RKCP a source text, it analyzes the source text in order to find out how it uses language, and then it regenerates language that emulates that first text.
So in the poem we just saw before, Poem 2, the one that you all thought was human, it was fed a bunch of poems by a poet called Emily Dickinson it looked at the way she used language, learned the model, and then it regenerated a model according to that same structure.
The language is just raw material, it could be Chinese, it could be in Swedish, it could be the collected language from your Facebook feed for one day.
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