Talking
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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."
For example, most other Germanic language speakers feel completely comfortable
talking
about rain tomorrow by saying, "Morgen regnet es," quite literally to an English ear, "It rain tomorrow."
Just to give you a hint of that, let's look back at that OECD graph that we were
talking
about.
As I went back, I started
talking
to the men, to the village, and mothers, and I said, "I want to give back the way I had promised you that I would come back and help you.
And we know for sure when the Minister of National Security is speaking about crime, he's not
talking
about corruption either.
We're
talking
about irresponsibility in public office.
But I'm
talking
about the crabs actually doing the chewing.
I spent the last few years trying to answer that question, traveling around, meeting families,
talking
to scholars, experts ranging from elite peace negotiators to Warren Buffett's bankers to the Green Berets.
So on the morning I visited, Eleanor came downstairs, poured herself a cup of coffee, sat in a reclining chair, and she sat there, kind of amiably
talking
to each of her children as one after the other they came downstairs, checked the list, made themselves breakfast, checked the list again, put the dishes in the dishwasher, rechecked the list, fed the pets or whatever chores they had, checked the list once more, gathered their belongings, and made their way to the bus.
I was
talking
to Warren Buffett's banker, and he was chiding me for not letting my children make mistakes with their allowance.
I gave them a speech-to-text engine in a computer, and I said, "Keep
talking
into it until it types what you say." (Laughter) They did that, and watch a little bit of this.
(Children talking) This one is in England.
I'll stop
talking.
We're not
talking
about two cars that are coming off an assembly line here.
And a nurse from a hospital drove one right at that moment to the cafe I was in, and I bought her a smoothie and we sat there
talking
about nursing and death.
And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares of grasslands, and almost nobody is
talking
about it.
And bear in mind, I'm
talking
of most of the world's land now.
I remind you that I am
talking
about most of the world's land here that controls our fate, including the most violent region of the world, where only animals can feed people from about 95 percent of the land.
But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am
talking
to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying.
I'm not
talking
about no free shit, because free is not sustainable.
What I'm
talking
about is putting people to work, and getting kids off the street, and letting them know the joy, the pride and the honor in growing your own food, opening farmer's markets.
Now we're
talking
scale.
Now we're
talking
the potential for real change.
I mean, yesterday we were
talking
about printed DNA, and it's like: could be fantastic or could be horrific.
So I'm a social scientist by training, so why am I here today
talking
about smart materials?
And so if you hear an expert
talking
about the Internet and saying it can do this, or it does do this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather, or something like that.
SB: Well, research on progeria has come so far in less than 15 years, and that just shows the drive that researchers can have to get this far, and it really means a lot to myself and other kids with progeria, and it shows that if that drive exists, anybody can cure any disease, and hopefully progeria can be cured in the near future, and so we can eliminate those 4,000 diseases that Francis was
talking
about.
And we're only
talking
about our mobiles.
We are not
talking
about our computers, nor the cameras that are on the streets, in the stores and shop-windows, in the airports and trains, and wherever we are, being watched.
We are not
talking
about the radars on the roads that register us if we overspeed.
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