Sometimes, however, improvements are more about what a language removes than what it adds.

但是，有时候语言的改进更多地体现在它取消了什么内容，而不是增加了什么。

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It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.

要说出同一语言的方言差异到什么程度就成为一种别的语言是不可能的。

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Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.

他希望发现一个没有听到母语的孩子会说什么语言，他让护士们保持沉默。

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By the way, in what I'm saying, I oversimplify by supposing that the basic unit of language is a word.

因为我想说的是，我们现在是把语言的基本单位简单化了。

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And that gives me a lot of power in terms of what I want to have inside of the language.

这让我能更容易的了解,该语言的内部结构。

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And what this means is that any theory of language use and language comprehension cannot simply appeal to a list.

这也就意味着,任何语言使用和语言理解的理论,都无法列出一份句子的清单

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The nature of the principles of universal grammar limits what can count as a natural language grammar.

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What we need is a common language that allows all of these devices to communicate with one another.

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That could be useful for travelers lost in a foreign city, or choosing what to order in a menu written in another language.

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