In part this is because working in a second language slows down the thinking.

在某种程度上，这是因为用第二语言工作会放慢思考速度。

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Language is still preeminent in the kinds of thinking that we've been doing.

语言仍然在我们所见的各种形式的思考中突出，我们真的。

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This line of thinking raised an exciting possibility: Perhaps language left a fossil record after all-not in buried bones, but in our DNA.

这种思路展现了一种激动人心的可能性：语言可能留下了化石纪录——不是埋在地下的骨头，而是在我们的DNA当中。

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Barth is not alone in thinking these things about language.

对这些语言问题的思考Barth并不是孤军奋斗。

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There are 300 million people in the U.S. This type of left-brained thinking is like saying, every person that is born speaks their own language, so everyone in the U.S. needs to learn 300 million languages to communicate with each other.

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Parents stop using traditional tongues, thinking it will be better for their children to grow up using a dominant language (such as Swahili in East Africa) or a global one (such as English, Mandarin or Spanish).

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