Fantastic Features We Don't Have In The English Language

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http://tomscott.com - @tomscott - There are lots of interesting features in other languages, some of which English would really benefit from having. I'm going to talk about four of them: time-independence, clusivity, absolute direction, and evidentiality.

Also, I've learned from last week: no irritating piano music this time!

UNESCO list of endangered languages: http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/



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