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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.80,0:00:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.18,0:00:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: Hi!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.38,0:00:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my name is Reba Elliott
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.100,0:00:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I do work for an organization\Ncalled Lifting Voices.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.66,0:00:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our mission is to help young people \Ndiscover and share their voices
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.66,0:00:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to grow, find joy \Nand accomplish change.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.34,0:00:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My work is sharing the power of words
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.83,0:00:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I really know that \Nwords have big power.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.34,0:00:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, look at this!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.26,0:00:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here I am, standing, talking
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.28,0:00:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there you are, \Nhundreds and hundreds of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.48,0:00:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.78,0:00:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got something going here already
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.40,0:00:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we did it through nothing more \Nthan a couple of simple spoken words.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.16,0:00:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My day-to-day work is with young people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.65,0:00:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I find that the child's mentality
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.59,0:00:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is fun and open and explorative
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.16,0:00:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be really useful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.33,0:01:02.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'd like to borrow \Nsomething from that mentality
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.35,0:01:05.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and play a game with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.38,0:01:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah! \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.04,0:01:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This game is called "Let's make a story".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.74,0:01:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to make \Na story together, you and I.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.96,0:01:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our story is about a word.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.61,0:01:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any word.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.17,0:01:20.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A word that means something to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.35,0:01:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A word you say all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.52,0:01:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Puppies?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.49,0:01:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ice-cream?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.36,0:01:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your favourite word.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.53,0:01:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about it!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.45,0:01:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Got something?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.96,0:01:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.58,0:01:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your word represents language.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.33,0:01:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every word you've ever spoken\Nor heard, or read, or written.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.48,0:01:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every word you've ever \Nwhispered or shouted.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.42,0:01:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all there in your mind right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.76,0:02:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or we're going to give it a story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.82,0:02:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See what it can do.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.72,0:02:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every story has a journey
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.26,0:02:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ours is no different.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.31,0:02:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our journey begins... at the beginning!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.79,0:02:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where language first begins.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.98,0:02:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.64,0:02:18.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my son. \N(Audience: aaahhh)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.71,0:02:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know. Perfect reaction. Yeah. \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.65,0:02:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So his name's August \Nand he's 2 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.12,0:02:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And like any parent can tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.95,0:02:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watching language develop \Nin a child is miraculous.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.93,0:02:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When August was first born \Nall he could do was mew.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.18,0:02:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like a little cat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.01,0:02:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just "mew". \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.50,0:02:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now 2 short years later,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.31,0:02:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he has this amazing ability \Nto name his world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.08,0:02:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has a name for things he sees
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.21,0:02:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a name for things he does.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.38,0:02:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what's even more amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.61,0:02:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that he can put \Nthose words together
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.74,0:02:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make thing happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.61,0:02:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can say...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.12,0:03:01.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My son has a very deep voice \Nfor a 2-year-old.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.53,0:03:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.51,0:03:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he'll say:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.28,0:03:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mama, throw the blue ball!" \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.93,0:03:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the ball will be thrown.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.09,0:03:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here it goes! \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.86,0:03:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By naming his world, \Nhe begins to transcend it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.24,0:03:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If he can get the right words \Nin the right order,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.93,0:03:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he can make things happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.27,0:03:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what my son's \Nfavourite word will be when he grows up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.74,0:03:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can predict that his mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.29,0:03:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is richly familiar \Nwith this practice of making things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.73,0:03:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happen through words,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.38,0:03:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going be a good home for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.04,0:03:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know another toddler.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.16,0:03:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work for this toddler.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.51,0:03:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her name is Erica.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.71,0:03:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And like my son she's 2.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.90,0:03:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they are different in a big way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.72,0:03:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this 2-year-old cannot speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.58,0:04:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She can make sounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.26,0:04:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She can groan.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.76,0:04:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's really important \Nthat you know
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.85,0:04:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no physical cause \Nfor her inability to speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.78,0:04:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She doesn't have a cognitive disorder,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.26,0:04:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she doesn't have an oral disorder.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.93,0:04:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This little girl can't speak
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.84,0:04:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because no one cares\Nabout her enough
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.94,0:04:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to speak to her or listen to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.84,0:04:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She can't name her world
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.08,0:04:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because no one cared about \Nher enough to name it for her.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.27,0:04:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unlike my son,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.16,0:04:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she can't make things happen \Nthrough her words.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.02,0:04:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember I was reading\Na book with her one day
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.82,0:04:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I looked at her \Nand this light came on in her eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.56,0:04:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember it was a book \Nabout a little baby getting dressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.81,0:05:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I looked at Erica
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.28,0:05:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this huge smile broke over her face
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.59,0:05:06.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she looked up at me and said:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.99,0:05:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shoe!"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.67,0:05:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now every time I see her
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.13,0:05:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she runs to me and she pulls me down
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.63,0:05:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she points at my shoes\Nand she points at her shoes
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.98,0:05:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she says: "Shoe!" \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.96,0:05:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shoe-shoe-shoe-shoe-shoe!" \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.48,0:05:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's all.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.88,0:05:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about your word.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.45,0:05:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's give your word a story.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.31,0:05:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In which toddler \Nwould you like its journey to begin?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.84,0:05:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2 children.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.88,0:05:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2 little humans.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.40,0:05:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In which mouth will your word thrive?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.37,0:05:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all have times when we're speechless.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.62,0:05:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Times when a notion just hits us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.91,0:05:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can't transfer \Nthat impulse to language.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.50,0:06:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I look at August or I look at Erica,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.72,0:06:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the word "love" doesn't really suffice.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.94,0:06:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in terrible times too, words fail us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.55,0:06:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've experienced violence,\Ndrug addiction...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.24,0:06:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I've gotta tell you?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.88,0:06:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fear?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.85,0:06:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despair?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.78,0:06:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really doesn't cover it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.23,0:06:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm sure the same is true for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.28,0:06:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think about the most wonderful \Nand the bleakest times in your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.31,0:06:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll be really hard pressed \Nto put names to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.28,0:06:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even your favourite word.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.92,0:06:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one that we're so tenderly guiding \Nthrough this little journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.29,0:06:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a label.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.28,0:06:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a sign post.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.38,0:06:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pointing the way to your \Nineffable experience
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.99,0:06:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of puppies or ice-cream, or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.51,0:06:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why do we do it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.40,0:06:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do we put labels to experience?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.50,0:07:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people say that \Nlanguage is an instinct.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.47,0:07:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That all of us, me standing here,\Nyou sitting there,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.30,0:07:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big smart adults, we're all \Njust a step above my toddler.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.47,0:07:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We put names to things \Nto transcend them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.56,0:07:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We put the names in the sentences \Nand we make the sentences go.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.31,0:07:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love is a many-splendored thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.99,0:07:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.83,0:07:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We make worlds happen through words.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.88,0:07:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a big deal
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.28,0:07:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a big part of our human story.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.46,0:07:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a big word:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.02,0:07:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}civilization{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.81,0:07:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Civilization in general \Nwas carried on the backs of our words.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.67,0:07:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of our forebears.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.68,0:07:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.88,0:07:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inventing irrigation,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.42,0:07:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,developing systems of exchange,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.48,0:07:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating new and much easier \Nmodes of survival.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.35,0:07:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.16,0:08:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of the simple raw materials \Nof their landscapes and their minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.92,0:08:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Words were there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.69,0:08:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Words allowed those ideas \Nto be shared efficiently.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.43,0:08:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even more importantly,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.99,0:08:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,words allowed those ideas\Nto be shared abstractly.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.74,0:08:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.78,0:08:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our forebears would have had \Na really hard time pantomiming
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.55,0:08:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}annual{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.35,0:08:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}flood{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.42,0:08:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.36,0:08:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}currency{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.26,0:08:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without words, for the pure ideas \Nthat grow to our world,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.20,0:08:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can't manipulate them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.82,0:08:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't make them \Ninto something brighter and better.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.39,0:08:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the neighbourhood \Nwhere Erica lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.52,0:08:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This neighbourhood is located 3 miles...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.76,0:08:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's 1 hour's walk from \Nwhere we're standing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.100,0:08:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her neighbourhood is our neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.13,0:09:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1/3 of the adults in DC \Nare functionally illiterate.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.58,0:09:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will they tell us their ideas?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.40,0:09:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will they tell us about \Nthe next {\i1}irrigation{\i0} or {\i1}currency{\i0}?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.19,0:09:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need their help to shape the ideas \Nthat will transform our world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.57,0:09:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somewhere in your life \Nthere's a young person.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.74,0:09:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's your child,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.44,0:09:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe it's a kid down a block.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.83,0:09:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take time today to think about
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.20,0:09:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how you want your word\Nto live in that child.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.58,0:09:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make sure he can say {\i1}shoe{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.28,0:09:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and {\i1}ball{\i0}, and {\i1}love{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.14,0:09:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make sure he can help us \Nshape our human story.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.76,0:09:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.20,0:09:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)