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Dnia =C5=9Broda, 4 kwietnia 2012 o 21:55:12 MorphemeAddict napisa=C5=82(a):
> I found the following video very interesting.
>=20
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=3Dendscreen&NR=3D1&v=3Dm9x8l9vXU9w
>=20
> It may be that speakers of languages with a strong future time reference
> (e.g., English, Italian, Russian) have better lives economically than
> speakers of languages with weak future time reference (e.g., Chinese,
> German).
>=20
> A language designed without a mandatory tense marker (in particular, for
> the future tense), e.g., Lojban, might be better for its speakers than
> having an obligatory future tense marker, e.g., Esperanto.

And if someone's interested, there's more on Language Log:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3D3756
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3D3792

Myself, I'm sceptical. But I'm not an expert ;)
--=20
Ecce Jezuch
"Silence has a definition, vocabulary of muted diction
Precise thought to miscomprehend, ambiguity in high resolution
Articulate expletive fiction open to misinterpretation - so precise"
- J. Walker

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