Does Language Change Thought?
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Does Language Change Thought?
Here's a piece from The Economist that discusses this idea. Does speaking a language alter how you think?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Re: Does Language Change Thought?
The Hispanics that I know have almost entirely dropped the formal third person "you."it's all second person, even the first time they meet you.
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