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This is how your language affects your thoughts
In Through the Language Glass, the linguist Guy Deutscher reports that many primitive populations, without being color-blind, have verbal designations for only two or three colors.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
linear languages, like English, permit us to talk about the loop only one step at a time,
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Allow me to try convincing you that although language is likely not deterministic, it can have an impact on the way you think, the way you learn, the habits you pick up, and the decisions you make﹣especially if we don’t actively try to expand our horizons past that which we’ve been served.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.