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How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Intelligence Squared
Is the Americanization of English Threatening British English?
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A human brain is perfectly able to learn two or three or more languages, completely different languages, perfectly successfully. So the idea that learning to text is just going to be such a baffling, incredibly complicated process for the poor brain is completely wrong. What are the implications of your book for ways to combat discrimination based on language? That's quite a weighty question, I realize. It's a very important one. This is potentially very big obstacle to a fair and just world," he says.
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