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Words, words, words
As Wittgenstein famously wrote, "The limits of my language means the limits of my world." Watch talks by linguists, data analysts and word nerds who explore the all-encompassing power of language.
Jill Shargaa: Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome'
Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?
David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic
How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
Billy Collins: Two poems about what dogs think (probably)
Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry
Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about the war
Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason
Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language
Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! | ShaoLan
Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!
Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world
Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon!
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
What we learned from 5 million books
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Why is 'x' the unknown? | Terry Moore
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
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