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Our Desire to Fit In and the Problems That Creates & How Language Lets Us Down

Something You Should Know

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Language for Humanity Is Like Water for Fish

There are about seven thousand languages in the world, and most of them are spoken by fewer than ten thousand people. So i like to say that language for humans is like water for fish, that we are surrounded byt but we don't tend a kind of question and look at it as closely as we should. All languages will allow you to do things like get somebody to pass the salt, or make plans for what you're going to do to morrow, or to tell a story, for example. But how they do that can differ quite radically. Many kinds of aspects of language are different.

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