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Hi.
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Audience: Hi.
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Poet Ali. I want to ask you guys a
question. How many languages do you speak?
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This is not a rhetorical question.
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I actually want you to think of a number.
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For some of you, it's pretty easy.
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Inside your head, you're like, "It's one.
You're speaking it, buddy. I'm done."
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(Laughter)
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Others of you maybe are wondering
if the language that an ex-boyfriend
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or an ex-girlfriend taught you
where you learned all the cuss words,
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if it counts, go ahead and count it.
Be nice to yourself.
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When I ask myself the question,
I came up with four,
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arguably five if I've been drinking.
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(Laughter)
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[in Italian?]
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(Cheers)
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Cheers.
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But on closer examination,
I came up with 83, 83 languages,
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and I got tired and I stopped counting,
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and it forced me to revisit
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this definition that we have of language.
closed TED
