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The fact is even when face-to-face with another person, in the very same room, and speaking the same language, human communication is incredibly complex.
And while any language needs consistent patterns to function, the study of these patterns opens up an ongoing debate between two positions known as prescriptivism and descriptivism.
Grossly simplified, prescriptivists think a given language should follow consistent rules, while descriptivists see variation and adaptation as a natural and necessary part of language.
For much of history, the vast majority of language was spoken.
But as people became more interconnected and writing gained importance, written language was standardized to allow broader communication and ensure that people in different parts of a realm could understand each other.
And rules for written grammar were applied to spoken language, as well.
Rather than deciding how language should be used, it describes how people actually use it, and tracks the innovations they come up with in the process.
Ultimately, grammar is best thought of as a set of linguistic habits that are constantly being negotiated and reinvented by the entire group of language users.
Like language itself, it's a wonderful and complex fabric woven through the contributions of speakers and listeners, writers and readers, prescriptivists and descriptivists, from both near and far.
So now, given the complexities of language and cultural exchange, how does this sort of thing not happen all the time?
Much of the answer lies with the skill and training of interpreters to overcome language barriers.
Without pauses, those in the audience can choose the language in which they want to follow.
To get used to the unnatural task of speaking while they listen, students shadow speakers and repeat their every word exactly as heard in the same language.
At some point, a second language is introduced.
They can even leave a term in the original language, while they search for the most accurate equivalent.
Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the consequences may be catastrophic.
As Margaret Atwood famously noted, "War is what happens when language fails."
And that experience showed me the hidden power of this craft and showed me that there was this common language I had with the rest of the world.
You've got this scientist mind that can understand the full range of issues, and the ability to turn it into the most vivid language.
But honestly, I have a lot of really good friends in the scientific community who are incredibly patient and who will sit there and explain this stuff to me over and over and over again until I can get it into simple enough language that I can understand it.
But before we get there, how can something so complex as emotion be converted into mere numbers, the only language machines understand?
There's body language and vocal tone, changes in heart rate, complexion, and skin temperature, or even word frequency and sentence structure in our writing.
You've deciphered the language enough to ask any question, but you don't know which of the two words 'ozo' and 'ulu' means yes and which means no.
Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before.
What makes it seem real is that in actual languages, letters and groups of letters appear with consistent frequencies, and the language in the Voynich manuscript has patterns you wouldn't find from a random letter generator.
The third theory is that the manuscript is written in an actual language, but in an unknown script.
Perhaps medieval scholars were attempting to create an alphabet for a language that was spoken but not yet written.
Those who believe the manuscript was an attempt to create a new form of written language speculate that it might be an encyclopedia containing the knowledge of the culture that produced it.
My colleagues Will Jones and Alex Teytelboym have explored ways in which that idea could be applied to refugees, to ask refugees to rank their preferred destinations, but also allow states to rank the types of refugees they want on skills criteria or language criteria and allow those to match.
The researchers found damage to the patients' left temporal lobes, so they suggested that language is controlled by the left side of the brain.
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