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Michael Erard

Babel No More

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  • Ксения Зайцеваfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    the curse of Babel
  • Ксения Зайцеваfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    provide a glimpse into what the human brain is capable of
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    If language had evolved solely for communication, we’d rarely misunderstand each other. Instead, we have a system in which words mean more than one thing, in which one can devise many sentences to capture the same idea, in which one moment of silence means more than a thousand pictures.
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    “It’s not a genetic predisposition,” he said. “It’s an economic predisposition. If you don’t speak, you don’t eat. It’s as simple as that.”
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    One metaphor for Hinduism that seemed to capture this quality comes from religion scholar Wendy Doniger, who called it “one house with many mansions,” which also captures the linguistic life of the south Indians I met. In the West, a person with multiple identities and affiliations seems obliged to struggle or feel confusion. Here, the more the merrier.
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    I appreciated him more for his seasoned dismissal of a unified thing called “English.” That sensibility about language would prove valuable.
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    What is surprising is that what one remembers doesn’t decline steadily over a lifetime. Rather, what you remembered after three to six years would stay with you for decades.
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    The enemy of the language learner is forgetting. You can only prevent this by regularly studying. It’s not revolutionary.”
    Another key asset for the hyperpolyglot, from Mezzofanti to Abadzi, is an ability to monitor what they say before it comes out of their mouths.
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    learns grammar from language, not language from grammar,” she writes. One can almost hear the thousands of language teachers gnashing their teeth in Hungary’s direction.
  • Tina Whitefez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    If a Norwegian claims to be able to speak seven languages, six of them are Norwegian.
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