Playing With Language

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			How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston by TED-Ed			4:30
			One of the most difficult words to translate... - Krystian Aparta by TED-Ed			3:48
			How interpreters juggle two languages at once - Ewandro Magalhaes by TED-Ed			4:56
			The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein by TED-Ed			4:47
			Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude by TED-Ed			4:39
			How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten by TED-Ed			4:33
			How did clouds get their names? - Richard Hamblyn by TED-Ed			5:07
			How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas by TED-Ed			4:45
			Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce by TED-Ed			3:28
			Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern by TED-Ed			4:54
			Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor by TED-Ed			5:22
			The language of lying — Noah Zandan by TED-Ed			5:42
			How languages evolve - Alex Gendler by TED-Ed			4:03
			The true story of 'true' - Gina Cooke by TED-Ed			4:28
			Speech acts: Constative and performative - Colleen Glenney Boggs by TED-Ed			3:58
			Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages? - John McWhorter by TED-Ed			5:21
			Birth of a nickname - John McWhorter by TED-Ed			4:57
			Shakespearean dating tips - Anthony John Peters by TED-Ed			2:25
			A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter by TED-Ed			4:27
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			Redefining the dictionary - Erin McKean by TED-Ed			15:55
			Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke by TED-Ed			3:28
			How did English evolve? - Kate Gardoqui by TED-Ed			5:05
			Making sense of spelling - Gina Cooke by TED-Ed			4:19
			The world's English mania - Jay Walker by TED-Ed			4:32
			A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script - Rajesh Rao by TED-Ed			17:02
			What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak - Mark Forsyth by TED-Ed			6:40
			Why is 'x' the unknown? - Terry Moore by TED-Ed			3:58
			The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl by TED-Ed			10:18
			What we learned from 5 million books - Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel by TED-Ed			14:09
			Don't insist on English! - Patricia Ryan by TED-Ed			10:36
			1000 TEDTalks, 6 words - Sebastian Wernicke by TED-Ed			7:35
			Txtng is killing language. JK!!! - John McWhorter by TED-Ed			13:52
			Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! - ShaoLan by TED-Ed			6:15
			Could your language affect your ability to save money? - Keith Chen by TED-Ed			12:14

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