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| 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (article teaser) by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/16/2019, 1:43pm PDT | ||||
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| 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World
If your language had no words to describe “the future,” would you still stress over it? Nautilus | Claire Cameron I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday. Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers would know precisely what it means. But what does it actually tell you—or, more to the point, what does it not tell you? It doesn’t specify facts like the subject’s gender or the neighbor’s, or what direction the speaker traveled, or the nature of the neighbors’ relationship, or whether the food was just a cookie or a complex curry. English doesn’t require speakers to give any of that information, but if the sentence were in French, say, the gender of every person involved would be specified. The way that different languages convey information has fascinated linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists for decades. In the 1940s, a chemical engineer called Benjamin Lee Whorf published a wildly popular paper in the MIT Technology Review that claimed the way languages express different concepts—like gender, time, and space—influenced the way its speakers thought about the world. For example, if a language didn’t have terms to denote specific times, speakers wouldn’t understand the concept of time flowing. Read the rest of the article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-languages-that-could-change-the-way-you-see-the-world |
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