The RSA has done an awesome animation of a Steven Pinker lecture on "indirect speech acts". Sounds fancy, but it's really a simple concept and beautifully illustrated by this video.
If you are a student of linguistics, this should be especially interesting, but either way you're in for a treat.
(RSA YouTube)
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Monday, February 21, 2011
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