Could your language affect your ability to save money? - Keith Chen

[@Vsmovies100]

Why would Swedish be a futureless language? We say "Det regnade igår" (It rained yesterday), "Det regnar idag" (It rains today) and "Det kommer att regna imorgon" (It will rain tomorrow).

[@jarnMod]

I start speak futureless English

[@PeppoMusic]

...when?

[@SamYoonYYS]

Speaking English like this sure makes English futureless... XD

[@Smallpotato1965]

He might be an economics professor, but a linguist he is not. In Dutch, one not only uses present and past tenses (het *regent* vandaag" = 'it rains today', 'het *regende* gisteren' = 'it rained yesterday') but one also uses *additional* verbs to show that something happened in the past ("het *heeft* gisteren *geregend*" = "it *has* rained yesterday") and another *additional* verb to show that something will happen in the future ("het *zal* morgen regenen" = "it will rain tomorrow") Yes somehow this... brilliant... man claims that Dutch is a 'futureless language' with the equivalent 'it rain today, it rain yesterday, it rain tomorrow'?!!

[@VideoNozoki]

at 6:42, that graph looks quite evenly mixed. Of the top 5 saving countries, 2 use Futureless language, and 3 use Future based language... His theory is interesting (and i believe has some truth in it), but it doesn't seem as strong as he makes it sound. It seems more like a theory driving the search for data than vice versa. And China (where he started his speech) isn't even listed here.

Wow, deep study. Quite cool.

[@iamstoned4life]

"Morgen regnet es." is used about as often as the grammatically correct "Morgen wird es regnen."

[@muffinproject]

I think he's twisting words here to make a more convincing but false argument. When seems to be true is that in German (etc.) you can choose between both styles, while in English "Tomorrow it rains" or "It rains tomorrow" are never used. Well, outside of poetic use and other rarities.

[@MsShith]

A very interesting study.

[@NoTeamGo]

How do the cultures and languages that lack the future tense or any time components figure into this scale?

[@Heymissyme]

Futureless language .. I am deeply impressed!!

[@MarilynKorn]

Very educational!

[@RusticKey]

I like his posture.

[@NeuroticKnight9]

I had a break up with my girlfriend a while ago, she grew up in india with rather a community that spoke native language, while i was mostly english speaker, now i get what she meant by she was tired of living in future when we moved off and lived in long distance one, now i got a clear idea as to what she meant by living in future was tiresome.

[@marcosdop]

TOTALLY FALSE ASSUMPTION about German. As a native German speaker, German IS NOT futureless. >> Morgen WIRD es regnen. (Tomorrow WILL it rain)

[@OboeWhizzy]

Speak futureless English is how I do convincing Chinese accent.

[@whatson5461]

To awnserd your question Spanish has present future and past tense so it's similar to English.

[@Kevin15047]

You know what I always hated. In English we say someone is "worth 5.2 million dollars." That's a terrible way to say that. The amount of money you have is an awful measure of someone's worth. It's possible to be rich and be almost worthless. And vice versa.

[@h03035]

Ahmmm, I think this argument is a bit farfetched. German, for example, uses the future tense and the present tense equally often to express a future event. On the other hand, also English uses present tenses in order to express near future events, eg. concerning timetables."The train leaves (tomorrow) at 5 o'clock." or other events in the near future "He is playing tennis on Friday". Morphologically, English doesn't even have a proper fututre tense, as both future tenses are formed with present tenses (will/be going to). In comparison to that, French, for instance, uses inflection to form a fututre tense, (J'irai en France) with a stem and suffixes, which can be seen as proper future tense. In so far, Mr. Chen was either not clear enough in the linguistic part of this talk, as I couldn't follow his idea properly, or he should overthink it again.

[@yauyyb]

well germans, do have a much lower saving rate than the rest of the "futureless" language speaking nation

[@hopesouthstar4304]

people in Ireland speak mostly English, why is the savings rate higher than the UK?

[@LarsGavris]

It is "morgen WIRD es regnen" ;)

[@elchin_mahir]

Is there any county which speak in presentless language?

[@Tarmac_Handglue]

Amazing.

[@falnica]

But what about Mexico?, they speak spanish and they seem to save very good

[@rosey9cheeks]

hmmmm..very very interesting!

[@archstanton3022]

I wish he had defined "futureless" better. This doesn't make much sense because of that problem.

[@HowHighImHalfBaked]

me and my brother are a lot alike, but how we spend are cash is completely different he's a madman if he gets a a couple grand he'll buy new tv, sub woffers, anything really he just start to buy things/stuff. I on the other hand still have my money saved from when i was in elementary believe it or not, i am 21.

[@Kevin15047]

Split the difference. I think you're both nuts.

[@TashmanianDevil]

He got Swedish wrong.. Det har regnat. Det rengnar Det kommer att regna

[@borgirahlstrom3]

You got Swedish wrong *Det regnar

[@bagoschan]

het heeft gisteren geregend het is aan het regenen het zal morgen regenen ...and this guy claims dutch is a futureless language ??

[@TashmanianDevil]

He got Swedish wrong too :)

[@ArturoStojanoff]

I don't think I agree, what about Sicily??

[@davidtrujillo993]

12 minutes and 12 seconds of my life wasted I guess that is my "futured language".

[@blindedbliss]

His theory falls apart when you learn that Norwegian is a futured language.

[@XiaosChannel]

But language is pretty much the same as culture.

[@LastBencher14]

u did not take India into consideration ?