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What I'm here to talk with you about today is an intriguing new hypothesis and some surprisingly powerful new findings that I've been working on about the link between the structure of the language you speak and how you find yourself with the propensity to save.

And in fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it.

Now, that fascinated me endlessly as a child, but what fascinates me even more today as an economist is that some of these same differences carry through to how languages speak about time.

So for example, if I'm speaking in English, I have to speak grammatically differently if I'm talking about past rain, "It rained yesterday," current rain, "It is raining now," or future rain, "It will rain tomorrow."

In some deep sense, Chinese doesn't divide up the time spectrum in the same way that English forces us to constantly do in order to speak correctly.

Could how you speak about time, could how your language forces you to think about time, affect your propensity to behave across time?

You speak English, a futured language.

Now suppose that that visceral difference makes you subtly dissociate the future from the present every time you speak.

If, on the other hand, you speak a futureless language, the present and the future, you speak about them identically.

What you see is that these bars are systematically taller and systematically shifted to the left compared to these bars which are the members of the OECD that speak futured languages.

What you find is nine countries around the world that have significant native populations which speak both futureless and futured languages.

My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.

And as we speak right now, three million girls in Africa are at risk of going through this mutilation.

As we speak right now, 125 girls will never be mutilated.

As we speak right now, women are not being beaten because of the revolutions we've started in our community.

And I want to speak a little bit, take us back about 30 years.

And Alaveteli.com is a way for us to have an open database for Freedom of Information applications, and speak with each other.

So Ben Novak, even as we speak, is joining the group that Beth Shapiro has at UC Santa Cruz.

RH: Yeah, we want people to speak the truth.

Since my family couldn't speak Chinese, I had to guide them somehow through more than 2,000 miles in China, and then into Southeast Asia.

We can see when he catches a train, which he's doing right now, when he stops, where he stays, when he goes, how he goes, how much time it takes him, when he is eating, when he is sleeping, like right now; when he takes a flight, who calls him, how long they speak, who sends him messages, what are the messages.

When Chris invited me to speak, he said, people think of you as a bit of an enigma, and they want to know what drives you a bit.

There was Armed Forces TV, and if you didn't speak Korean, that's what you were watching.

I'm going to make your lives easy this afternoon and just ask you to do one thing, and that's to go out, protest, speak about the unspeakable, and talk shit.

Linguists have actually shown that when we're speaking casually in an unmonitored way, we tend to speak in word packets of maybe seven to 10 words.

So I mean the kind of speech that you see someone giving in an old movie where they clear their throat, and they go, "Ahem, ladies and gentlemen," and then they speak in a certain way which has nothing to do with casual speech.

Well, if you can speak like writing, then logically it follows that you might want to also sometimes write like you speak.

Once you have things in your pocket that can receive that message, then you have the conditions that allow that we can write like we speak.

If you happen to speak Japanese, think about that little word "ne" that you use at the end of a lot of sentences.

If you listen to the way black youth today speak, think about the use of the word "yo."

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