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The team of scientists from the University of Vermont, recruited by Peter Dodds from among linguists and mathematicians, engaged in the analysis of ten the most common languages in the world to find out what is in them more is positive or negative. To the surprise of scientists, all ten languages showed approximately the same result: vocabulary with positive color in them was much more than negative.
Having studied the language of Tolstoy’s monumental works, as well as Dostoevsky’s pessimistic novels, scientists did not know at all that think. Indeed, here the same tendency of predominance was also traced. positively colored vocabulary. Then the researchers analyzed articles that talked about the events of the Second World War II. Perhaps you yourself will guess what awaited the scientists – the same positive.
As a result of this interesting study, linguists and American University mathematicians have proven that the most positive languages are portuguese and spanish, and the most negative – Korean and Chinese. Although the difference in quantity positively colored vocabulary in all ten languages insignificant.
And Dodds and colleagues came up with a special program, as a joke called them a “hedometer” or “measure of joy.” This the program allows you to track the level of positive text information that every day humanity receives from magazines, newspapers and the internet. So, after the terrorist attack aimed at employees French newspaper “Charlie Ebdo” program recorded a decline level of positive throughout the world. But just a few days after Paris tragedy indicators on the “Gedonometr” returned to normal.
All this, according to scientists, says one thing – humanity a positive perception of the world is characteristic, which means that we are initially “programmed” not to war with each other and not to self destruction. We are able to maintain balance on our home planet – about this is what our languages speak.
Recently it became known that a quarter of all the languages of the planet will disappear in the near future.
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