The Universal Language: Facial Expressions
December 30, 2008 by ithinkthereforeib
A BBC article echoes our reading of “The Universal Language”, detailing recent research on the innateness of facial expressions connected to particular emotions: “Smiles and scowls ´in our genes´”.
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Good to have a Universal Language, but a spoken one as well!
Try http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670 or http://www.lernu.net
I always wonder how people find us from the outside world, but I thought the above comment was educational. It refers to a whole other topic than our original “emotions as a universal language”, but, indeed, I suggest you check the links and familiarise yourself with Esperanto, one of the “artificial” languages – in fact, as far as I know, it is the most successful one. Someone remind me to talk about artificial vs. natural languages when we are back in class in January!