分类目录归档：language
So, I'll be speaking to you using language ...
because I can.
This is one these magical abilities that we humans have.
We can transmit really complicated thoughts to one another.
So what I'm doing rig
Languages don't just die naturally.
People abandon mother tongues, because they're forced to.
Often, the pressure is political.
In 1892,
the US Army general Richard Henry Pratt
argued that killing ind
Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez
People say that a long, long time ago,
everybody on earth spoke the same language
and belonged to the same tribe.
And I guess people had a little to
Transcriber:
I am a linguist.
Linguists study language.
And we do this in a lot of different ways.
Some linguists study how we pronounce certain sounds.
Others look at how we build sentences.
And som
Transcriber:
I'm Kalika Bali, I'm a linguist by training
and a technologist by profession,
I have worked in academia,
in startups, in small companies and multinationals for over two decades,
doing re
Dene Elder Paul Disain said,
"Our language and culture
is the window through which we see the world."
And on Turtle Island,
what is now known as North America,
there're so many unique and wonderful wa
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I'd like to begin with a thought
experiment imagine that it's 4,000 years
into the future civilization as we know
it has ceased to exist no books no
electronic devices no Facebook o
so I want to start by offering you a
free no tech life hack and all it
requires of you is this that you change
your posture for two minutes but before
I give it away I want to ask you to
right now do
To many, one of the coolest things about "Game of Thrones"
is that the inhabitants of the Dothraki Sea
have their own real language.
And Dothraki came hot on the heels
of the real language that the Na
Have you ever seen
a big, red "No Running" sign at a public pool?
For the most part,
the pace on the deck reflects this statement.
But while the sign accurately describes
the patrons' movements,
isn't