Well, what I did with that was to access the linguistics literature.

And so I rang up Nottingham University, and I asked to talk to the professor of linguistics.

And he asked if I could find a linguistics expert to come up with a different definition of the word bollocks.

Two big things happened First, a bunch of new ideas about linguistics that came from studying the computational universe and second, the realization that having actual computable knowledge completely changes how one can set about understanding language.

My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.

But, while the presence and pressure of English has a striking impact on the vocabulary of the home language, it leaves the syntax, grammar, and pronunciation almost entirely unaffected. Unlike the indigenous languages that were pushed aside by the languages of the European colonizers, the official languages of the EU are robust they are equipped with grammars, dictionaries, archives, libraries, and linguistics faculties.