Is Language a Virus? Starring Punished "Venom" Snake | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea This episode is brought to you by Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com Are you an inhabitant of your nation, or of your language? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com The latest installment of the Metal Gear Solid series is centered around an interesting idea; people are better defined by the language that they speak than the country that they are from. The idea of “Linguistic Determinism” is not new, and there is scientific evidence to support the fact that the language we speak can influence the way we perceive the world around us. But is a language a homeland? Or are we all infected by the deadly virus? Please discuss in the comments! ----------------------------------------­­­­---------------------------- ASSET LINKS: 0:12 Metalgear Various Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metalgear-various-media.jpg 0:37 Anathemas and Admirations http://www.amazon.com/Anathemas-Admirations-E-M-Cioran/dp/1611456886 0:40 Emil Cioran http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Emil_Cioran 1:18 Inconceivable! High Quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVjs4aobqs 3:07 Max Weinreich http://epyc.yivo.org/content/12_1.php 3:10 History of the Yiddish Language http://www.amazon.com/History-Yiddish-Language-Volumes-Yale/dp/0300108877 3:52 Wenzhounese https://esotericlinguist.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/wenzhounese-romanization-part-3-tones/ 4:34 22 Jump Street - My Name is Jeff | FULL SCENE | HD 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SGSl-UnW0 4:40 Boomhauer Season 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jzvh2IeLmo 5:49 Austin Powers - ENGLISH English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPH0tYXJrA 5:51 Micky Flanagan - Half and Half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q04UlwXo5zA 5:53 Snatch - Mickey Almighty Speaks Pikey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LJw6PAi5Q8 6:51 I am not nice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVppuv9Pcqk 7:27 William S Burroughs http://gawker.com/reality-is-the-joke-and-paranoia-the-remedy-william-s-1515115327 7:31 Electronic Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electronic_Revolution 9:46 Eurotrip - "He's going to Berlin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mIm4bPBWE ----------------------------------------­­­---------------------------- Music: "Europe" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Level 5" by Room for the Homeless (http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm) "Bouncy Castle" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) ":P" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Number Cruncher" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Little Birthday Acid" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Topskore" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Anti Vanishing Spray" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Tarty Prash" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Uptown Tennis Club" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Dream Of Autumn" by Night Shift Master https://soundcloud.com/dj-darkmatter- "Insert Toy For Coin" by Eatme (http://eatme.pro/music/) "Dizor" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 "Lets go back to the rock" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 "Something like this" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 ----------------------------------------­­­---------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)