How native speakers pronounce “english”

I mean, he was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? (Laughter)

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we are the person standing outside the room. We're feeding in English sentences, we're getting English sentences back.

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We're feeding in English sentences, we're getting English sentences back. It really looks like the models understand us.

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It really looks like the models understand us. It really looks like they know English. But under the hood,

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a word like "rizz" can go from complete obscurity to becoming the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year. (Laughter)

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These words originated as a form of creative expression, independent from the straight white norms of the English language. But when those words began to be used online,

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When a word like "gyat" goes from an African-American English pronunciation of "goddamn" to being used as a noun for "butt" in memes like the song,

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Unfortunately, just like the euphemism of "unalive" isn't new, the appropriation of African-American English also isn't new. We've been whitewashing Black slang since the days of "cool" and "high five,"

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meaning "we're so screwed." Ironically, this is also TikTok slang coming from African-American English, but I wanted to address it.

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I know I've just painted a very bleak picture of the future of the English language, and there are a lot of concerning trends to unpack.

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In fact, I think each of these words is a beautiful, colorful addition to the English language that reflects the diverse cultural moment we're all in.

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So we're using the power of AI to analyze thousands of signs in ASL and translate them into English. Now, thousands may seem small,

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where the software will translate my sign into the blue text, and Hasiba's spoken English will be in gray. Hasiba: Hi, how's it going?

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(Spanish) Este es una historia de esperanza. (English) This is a story about hope. I grew up in Mexico City,

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(Spanish) Y es por eso que tengo esperanza. (English) This is why I’m hopeful, because we're using data not only to understand the methane problem,

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and they speak language among each other. They typically speak English language. BS: I mean, speaking of just the sheer compute requirements of these systems,

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So for purposes of argument, everyone in the audience is an agent. You have an input that's English or whatever language. And you have an output that’s English, and you have memory,

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You have an input that's English or whatever language. And you have an output that’s English, and you have memory, which is true of all humans.

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(Laughter) Then I remembered that he was four and barely spoke English. So I reverted to two words he definitely knew:

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so my first language is Austrian German, and my husband is from Australia, so he speaks English. So these kinds of conversations, misunderstandings,

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What does that mean? It basically means that when I say "I love you" in English, it doesn't feel the same as saying "ich liebe dich"

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So what does that mean for intercultural partners now? Imagine a Japanese-French couple, and they speak English together. Are they unable to communicate the true strength of their feelings

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because of this language distance? Now my husband and I, we mostly speak English together. Does that mean when I say "I love you" in English,

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Now my husband and I, we mostly speak English together. Does that mean when I say "I love you" in English, it means less because I'm emotionally detached from it?

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Now with anger, it's very often a totally different experience in English. It's very often the impact that matters more

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Now at that time in my relationship, I had no grasp how offensive that word is in English. To me, it was just four letters string together.

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one of the male participants said about his wife, "I don't think she's ever made me laugh in English. She's a German speaker."

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I always felt that I was effortlessly hilarious in Austrian German, but I couldn't bring that same energy to English, and I was so disheartened that my husband would never know

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You are correct though, one aspect is language proficiency. Now even though my English skills are really good and high, my husband is a native speaker.

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my husband is a native speaker. He will always be more proficient in English than I am. And that puts him at an advantage in a lot of situations.

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It's extremely apparent, though, when we have an argument. We're having all these heated discussions in English, my second language, his first language.

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After a day of processing life and work and emotions and conversations in English, it takes me double the energy

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There's also the global status of the language in use amongst partners. Now global player languages like English, Spanish, Mandarin, they are viewed as superior in comparison to lesser-spoken languages.

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So couples naturally gravitate towards them. Again, English versus Austrian German? I'm not winning so far.

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I'm not winning so far. The dominant global status of English will always take preference, and that flows into the dynamic of our relationship.

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breads, lots of breakfast items, snacks, bagels, um English muffins. Do you ever get

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So here I have pictures of my grandfather at different ages. And if I ask an English speaker to organize time, they might lay it out this way,

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And languages differ in where they put boundaries between colors. So, for example, in English, there's a word for blue that covers all of the colors that you can see on the screen,

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as if, "Ooh, something has categorically changed," whereas the brains of English speakers, for example, that don't make this categorical distinction,

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You take an event like this, an accident. In English, it's fine to say, "He broke the vase." In a language like Spanish,

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If it's an accident, you wouldn't say that someone did it. In English, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, "I broke my arm."

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depending on what their language usually requires them to do. So we show the same accident to English speakers and Spanish speakers, English speakers will remember who did it,

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So we show the same accident to English speakers and Spanish speakers, English speakers will remember who did it, because English requires you to say, "He did it; he broke the vase."

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English speakers will remember who did it, because English requires you to say, "He did it; he broke the vase." Whereas Spanish speakers might be less likely to remember who did it

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It also has implications for blame and punishment. So if you take English speakers and I just show you someone breaking a vase,

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almost everything we know about the human mind and human brain is based on studies of usually American English-speaking undergraduates at universities.

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He looked at me strangely, thinking that he misheard. He said, "Sorry? (English)." I said, "The menu (Arabic), please."

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"I do." He said, "No! It's called "menu" (English), or "menu" (French)." Is the French pronunciation correct?

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and thinking a specific thought. So, when he started writing in English, he had enough baggage. Even when he wrote in English,

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So, when he started writing in English, he had enough baggage. Even when he wrote in English, when you read his writings in English, you smell the same smell,

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Even when he wrote in English, when you read his writings in English, you smell the same smell, sense the same feeling.

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sense the same feeling. You can imagine that that's him writing in English, the same boy who came from the mountain. From a village on Mount Lebanon.

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How do you say whether this guy understands or not? So, if I say, "Freedom, sovereignty, independence (English)," or if your son came up to you and said,

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or if your son came up to you and said, "Dad, have you lived through the period of the freedom (English) slogan?" How would you feel?

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Does she want to commit suicide? 'Bury me?' (English)" This is one of the few examples.

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We are very cool! And to whoever might say, "Ha! You used an English word!" I say, "No! I adopt the word 'cool.'"

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Please, I beg of you, even though my time has finished, either Arabic, English, French or Chinese. But don't write Arabic with Latin characters mixed with numbers!

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When my daughter is born, I'll tell her, "This is your father, honey (Arabic)." I wouldn't say, "This is your dad, honey (English)." And in the supermarket, I promise my daughter Noor,

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Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" --

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The year is 1194. Maurice De Bracy, enemy to the English crown, is locked in combat with a mysterious Black Knight.

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The same thing is currently happening with AI chatbots, because you probably assume that ChatGPT is speaking English to you, except it's not speaking English,

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because you probably assume that ChatGPT is speaking English to you, except it's not speaking English, in the same way that the algorithm's not showing you reality.

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I was the only kid in all my classes who didn't begin to look like the classic English heroes represented in our textbooks.

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My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria

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and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music,"

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What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo,

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to make Cai's translator's voice sound just like Cai speaking -- just like he is speaking in English. So Sang is in a sound booth now.

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