Languages
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And nowhere do we see that more clearly than in the European Union, whose 27 member countries speak 23 official
languages.
The European Union is now spending over one billion euros annually translating among their 23 official
languages.
If 27 individuals from those 27 member states sat around table, speaking their 23 languages, some very simple mathematics will tell you that you need an army of 253 translators to anticipate all the pairwise possibilities.
And that question is whether in this modern, globalized world we can really afford to have all these different
languages.
I love oddities of
languages.
And everywhere I lived, I learned the languages, but never mastered them.
So I'm always looking for the false cognates or identical words in different
languages.
So if you don't know one of these languages, it's instant learning.
So it's a tree, and in its trunk you have the roots of
languages.
There are 800 different
languages
in the highlands.
First of all, I've been programming in multiple other programming
languages
to get the basics down, such as Python, C, Java, etc.
Now of course, there isn't just one language in the world, there are about 7,000
languages
spoken around the world.
And all the
languages
differ from one another in all kinds of ways.
In fact, people who speak
languages
like this stay oriented really well.
This is a big difference in cognitive ability across languages, right?
Well, some
languages
don't do this, because some
languages
don't have exact number words.
They're
languages
that don't have a word like "seven" or a word like "eight."
In fact, people who speak these
languages
don't count, and they have trouble keeping track of exact quantities.
Some
languages
have lots of words for colors, some have only a couple words, "light" and "dark."
And
languages
differ in where they put boundaries between colors.
Languages
have all kinds of structural quirks.
Lots of
languages
have grammatical gender; every noun gets assigned a gender, often masculine or feminine.
And these genders differ across
languages.
Languages
also differ in how they describe events, right?
So, people who speak different
languages
will pay attention to different things, depending on what their language usually requires them to do.
We're losing about one language a week, and by some estimates, half of the world's
languages
will be gone in the next hundred years.
I've told you about how speakers of different
languages
think differently, but of course, that's not about how people elsewhere think.
French babies cry on a rising note while German babies end on a falling note, imitating the melodic contours of those
languages.
It's 54 countries and thousands and thousands of
languages.
Right now, the web is partitioned into multiple
languages.
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