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Uploaded by on Jun 30, 2008

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14228

Researchers have found that people always act out the subject followed by the object, no matter the sentence structure of their native language.

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  • could certainly help with translation, thereby cultural diffusion and UNITED progress.

    after all, the sum is greater than its parts, and this includes coming up with ideas. more people working on a project, more likely it is ONE of them will have a new idea, thereby solving a problem, such as starvation or the energy crisis.

    so there. XP !

  • yet another shockingly uninteresting video.

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  • LOL

    DAALSIJ , we don't even know each other, on or off Youtube , you pathetic waste of flesh.

    You deleted your original comment, that all scientists are shit and cause world wide destruction or some garbage along those lines.

    Oh well, at least your original rant is gone because you realized how idiotic it sounded. Thank god for small miracles, eh? :p

  • Wait what? Duh? They have bathrooms in Russia and China because we all have to take poos. If a Chinese guy runs into a Russian bathroom holding his butt screaming "I have to take a crap" in chinese, they'll look at him, and probably point towards the bathroom. Or shoot him.

  • get fucked you peace of shit

    JINITRON.

    JINITRON IS THE BIGGEST LOSER ON YOUTUBE.

    go stick your ass up your mouth fuckhead.

  • Get off the computer scientists made for you, you retarded faggot.

  • Hmm. Evidence to support the existence of a homogenized language before the Flood myth period?

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