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This is how your language affects your thoughts
For example, if there were canisters labeled “gasoline drums,” no worker would ever smoke near them because they were explicitly dangerous.
However, when the canisters were labeled “ empty gasoline drums,” workers would be less vigilant and would smoke near them.
The word empty , in their minds, meant “ free of risk .”
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Ben Percifield added 2y ago
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
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Ben Percifield added 2y ago
Cognitively speaking, sighted people can perceive all colors , regardless of language . It’s just that some languages make an association between a perception and a word.
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Ben Percifield added 2y ago
The strong form of the theory is called linguistic determinism and says that language determines thoughts.
The weak form is called linguistic relativity and says that language influences thought.
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Ben Percifield added 2y ago
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
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Ben Percifield added 2y ago
Pirahã only has two color words: light and dark . What an English speaker might call dark red, speakers of Pirahã would just call dark
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Ben Percifield added 2y ago