Language in sentence

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And my daily language is English.

One day, I was glancing through my bank statement (I didn't have much to look at) and I've noticed that in the upper corner there was a symbol, that I'm going to show you, saying that document had been made in plain language, for me to understand it.

The idea interested me; I tried to find out what that was and I found out that there was a campaign for the simplification of language, which was the "Plain English Campaign".

If the language of the documents isn't simpler, we've already seen that people, even with a high literacy level, like you, if the language is hard, they don't get cleared, they continue to be unable to understand these documents.

So, besides increasing literacy [rate], and for now, it's much more important to reduce the complexity of documents and simplify the language.

When I talk about simplifying the language.

What do we mean with simplifying language?

How can you make the State and companies communicate with citizens in a language they can understand at first glance?

For example, Sweden and the United States introduced, last year, a legislation that forces the State to communicate with people in a language they can understand.

It's like this: private companies change their language; communicate in a clearer and simpler way, they make a big fuss about it, consumers love it, the sales rise, it works beautifully.

How many times do you write documents for the general public, for people that don't share your language, and you write them in a language that only you will understand?

And what if this goes to court?" "What you want is to destroy language.

We started with Wikipedia, but then Facebook came along for matters of taste and money; Twitter came along for real-time news; LinkedIn, for professional things; Match.com, for less professional things; TripAdvisor for travel, Yelp for restaurants, Realtor.com for finding a home, Dictionary.com for words, Wordnik for the whole language.

It is a programming language.

So, I'll be speaking to you using language ... because I can.

But now I've just made you think it, through language.

Now of course, there isn't just one language in the world, there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world.

That begs the question: Does the language we speak shape the way we think?

Well, that suggests that maybe language doesn't craft reality.

No; if your language and your culture trains you to do it, actually, you can do it.

So Russians have this lifetime of experience of, in language, distinguishing these two colors.

In a language like Spanish, you might be more likely to say, "The vase broke," or, "The vase broke itself."

So, people who speak different languages will pay attention to different things, depending on what their language usually requires them to do.

The language guides our reasoning about events.

Now, I've given you a few examples of how language can profoundly shape the way we think, and it does so in a variety of ways.

So language can have big effects, like we saw with space and time, where people can lay out space and time in completely different coordinate frames from each other.

Having count words in your language, having number words, opens up the whole world of mathematics.

Language can also have really early effects, what we saw in the case of color.

We make thousands of them all the time, and yet, language is getting in there and fussing even with these tiny little perceptual decisions that we make.

Language can have really broad effects.

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