Saying "thank you" is probably the first thing most of us learn to do in a foreign language.

说“谢谢”可能是我们大多数人学习外语要做的第一件事。

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In other words the language of an utterance is crafted to say some particular thing.

换言之，说出口的语言实际像是经过精心雕琢，来表达特定的意思。

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This is the kind of thing where having a sense of the actual language is completely necessary to determine the tone of a sentence, or to decide what bits to translate and what bits not to.

这种情况下，要决定一句话的语气，或者哪几个字不用翻译出来而那几个需要，就必须对这种语言有一种很切实的感觉。

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Director Roxana Silbert, "What's great about what we're doing is it allows them to come to it in their own terms and of course the thing that young people find most alienating about Shakespeare is the language, which feels like a different language to them and this isn't in anyway attempting to copy Shakespeare's language - it's written by young people in a language they would use."

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Second thing we want to talk about very briefly as we go along is the semantics of the language.

我们要说的第二点,是语言的语义。

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Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

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