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Indirect and Direct Language

February 13, 2011March 21, 2011 - by Danelle

This animated Stephen Pinker talk about innuendo and indirect speech is funny, but it also makes some interesting points about the ways we communicate, or obscure our intentions, depending on a whole lot of conditions underneath an interaction. What he doesn’t deal with, and which I’d love him to include, is a discussion of irony.

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