https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought/transcript?language=en
"that language, rather, emerges from human minds interacting from one another. And this is visible in the unstoppable change in language --the fact that by the time the Academy finishes their dictionary, it will already be well out of date."
"We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages. So language is not so much a creator or shaper of human nature, so much as a window onto human nature."
"Second conclusion is that the ability to conceive of a given event in two different ways, such as "cause something to go to someone" and "causing someone to have something,"...Just to give you a few examples: "ending a pregnancy" versus "killing a fetus;" "a ball of cells" versus "an unborn child;" "invading Iraq" versus "liberating Iraq;"
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