Reboot 9: Ben Blench

25 May '07 - 14:54

Reboot 9: Ben Blench

Ben Blench is an english man in Amsterdam, a linguist by trade but now a copywriter working at Media Catalyst.

His talk is "Newspeak - New technologies, new languages" and a grand unified theory of everything - or what do George Orwell, the Bible, Kraftwerk and ROFLCOPTERS have in common?

Ben and I talk about:

language is the distinguishing factor that makes us unique as a species on planet earth

what makes human language different from animal communication or what is the step above

do programming languages count as languages?

why there is a different me when he speaks another language

why computers fail - they are not just words

Scotty, "hello computer" and going to Star Trek Conventions

why telepathy would work so much better than words

pidgin english, international english and proper english or are there just "englishes"?

when you learn a language, do you learn the culture too?

his interest in other areas to connect and exchange ideas

Book suggestion: Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct

Download MP3 (32 min, 18,8 MB)

Visit his profile on the reboot page or visit his blog.

[Link for the podcast feed - if you subscribe in itunes, be careful to adapt the settings or you only will get one episode per day!]

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About Nicole Simon I love working with people and help them get successful, especially through the use of social software. Though I have been on the net for over a decade and have consulted SMB for years, I also understand the corporate side, as I have worked in a major corporation for 15 years.

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