这就是当我们回顾人类的沟通时，你会发现语言本身只占了沟通的百分之七。

That is if you look at human communication you'll find out that only seven percent of human communication is words.

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你会发现那些拥有语言、交流和教育学位的人在培训部门、网站团队和归档部门工作。

You'll find those with degrees in languages, communications, and education working in training departments, on website teams, and on documentation.

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现在，如果你在对不同的语言进行比较，你会发现它们有很多共同点。

Now, if you are comparing different languages, and you notice that they have a lot in common.

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And you'll find in the end that recursion is a feature of a language, it allows you to map some very obvious concepts like the phonebook tearing in half and half and half and half to actual code without it using some arbitrary human contrived framework like a for loop or a while loop which are much more stilted mechanisms.

最后你会发现递归是某种语言的一种特征,你可以用它将一些非常明显的思想,比如将电话簿划分为一半又一半,映射为实际代码，而不必使用那些人为框架,像for循环，while循环之类的,那是很呆板的机制。

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