Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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Is There a Prophecy in Dreams?
No one's going to be giving up spanish or hindior russian or chinesen any time soon. The language doesn't change in terms of its y does change, but not quickly and usually not by deliberate engineering. In terms of the rest of our psychology, i don't think it's true that language determines your attitudes and beliefs, although it can push against them.
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