Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal.

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought#t-70602

Notes:
-Language changes over the years without us noticing.
-Pinker has a descriptive attitude towards language. Prescriptivism / Descriptivism / Standard English.
-Language is used as a window into human nature.
-Language emerges from human minds interacting from each other.
-Visible and unstoppable changes in language are occurring: slang and jargon, historical change, dialect divergence and language formation.
-Language began as being spoken, then followed to become written and read.
-Communication model: Sender - Message - Reciever, Social - Historical and cultural context.