Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
Most people identify the curvy shape as “bouba” and the pointy shape as “kiki.”
This change in the way we use language is known as ‘concept creep’.
These developments, rather than being evidence of a society besotted with its own victimhood, indicate more nuanced understandings of harm and injustice. Concept creep can be a form of societal progress.
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Pre internet people generally have one account somewhere that someone set up for them. They know how to do basic things, as long as there are no changes."
not all languages have the same color terms. If you give speakers of different languages a color spectrum and ask them to label when one color becomes another, they will give different answers
Tetel-Andresen notes that in her classes, speakers of European language tend to draw horizontal lines with the past on the left and the future on the right .
Mandarin speakers tend to draw vertical representations of time .
What you draw might be relative to your language