When you were a baby you were a multilingual fool.

当你还是婴儿的时候,你完全不懂多种语言

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It's amazing how many languages you learn, anything you want.

你可以学到很多种语言，任何你想学的，这是令人惊叹的。

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Where there are many languages in use, language comes to seem arbitrary rather than natural, ; as the product of convention; not as something you're simply born into but something that you learn, something that is made and that can be remade.

世界上有很多种语言在使用中，然而语言的运用却显得任意，而非自然而然的作为传统的产物;,不像是与生俱来的才能，而像后天学会的，像是某些创造再创造的事物。

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