Words, words, words

…(10 short talks curated by TED) 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.

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  Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?
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  John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
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  Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
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  Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
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  Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
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  Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
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  Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
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  Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon!
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  Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered culture
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  Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

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