Through the Language Glass
the question of whether having different words and grammatical structures means we think differently about the world—an important component of the idea of untranslatability—remains open.
David Shariatmadari • Don't Believe a Word
Language is a blueprint for culture. We put ourselves into our words, from grocery lists to theorems. Needs are certainly encoded into language, but beyond those needs we see that imagination itself is just as much encoded into language, and different cultures have different languages. How is this possible? It suggests that imagination is dynamic,
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Studies have shown that changing how people talk changes how they think. Teaching people new color words, for instance, changes their ability to discriminate colors. And teaching people a new way of talking about time gives them a new way of thinking about it.