Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
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http://www.ted.com In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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He is my favourite person in terms of academics.
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Running rings around a captive or paying audience, is running rings around them. regardless of whether you are doing it with language or tricycles. Such instances should not reflect badly on the ethnicity, nationality or cultures involved though, as surely fast talkers and obfuscators are found in all circumstances.
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Quebec uses "courriel" all the time, much more commonly than "e-mail."
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"...which they began in 1930 and they've reached letter P." !!!!!!!
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song is supposed to be the Triumphal March from the opera Aida by Verdi. Cool intro song to me. Pinker is a genius though he missed on Brainerd yes.
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horrible intro music. My ears have been raped
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Not in Fargo, but in Brainerd.
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The sound made this unwatchable.
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S P makes me determined to be smarter. or is that more smart , , , ,?
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I saw him at Caltech!
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It was hard to enjoy because of the dreadful feedback from the microphone. How can it be that the organisers could not sort that out?
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the gray areas of language stress me out. i love the way he breaks it down systematically. kinda gives me more appreciation for those gray areas.
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TMI
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I guess that's why politicians are so vague in their answers.
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Why does the beginning and ending of sessions with TED logo - Blare with such Annoying Sound. Whosoever does the sound recording is damn stupid.
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If you're having trouble sleeping, you've come to the right place.
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Steve Pinker is one of the most fascinating thinkers of our time. He is getting to the root of knowledge via the subtle clues in our language usage. His examples are extremely perceptive. He is helping us all see through the veneer of "words", deeper into "meaning" -- very stimulating!
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The blind leading the blind.
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Does the intro need to be that annoying?
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