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Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages and Lost Knowledge

Daniel Everett has spent over twenty years studying a language spoken by a small tribe of only a few hundred people living in the depths of the amazon. In this fascinating lecture he talks about how wonderfully different their concept of the universe is from ours. No left no right, no numbers, no tomorrow or yesterday, no god, total acceptance of death as part of life. Not surprisingly they are a much, much happier peoples then ours. It is so sad that we loose a language and with it a unique culture every few weeks...

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