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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or linguistic relativity, proposes that the specific language a person speaks influences and shapes how they think, perceive, and experience the world.
This means different languages can lead to different worldviews and cognitive patterns.
This means different languages can lead to different worldviews and cognitive patterns.
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Allow me to try convincing you that although language is likely not deterministic, it can have an impact on the way you think, the way you learn, the habits you pick up, and the decisions you make﹣especially if we don’t actively try to expand our horizons past that which we’ve been served.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
In the Irish language, we are not our emotions. We are not sad or anxious. We have sadness or anxiety on us.
To say I am sad, we say tá brón orm - there is sadness on me.
I am anxious, tá imní orm - there is anxiety on me.
The language recognizes these as passing... See more
Briana Ní Loingsighsubstack.comI'm trilingual (Catalan, Spanish, English) & currently studying Swedish and I've found myself using all my languages to properly convey what I'm saying, which infuriates my family lol. It just expands my ability to say what I want to say without having to be restricted to one language.
how language shapes the way we think

I'm also learning Spanish, and one thing that caught my attention is how the question “What do you work with?” is translated as “¿A qué te dedicas?”. It’s closer to “What do you dedicate yourself to?”, which feels like something you put effort and meaning into
how language shapes the way we think
i was going to comment what you said about "having sadness upon you" after i watched the video, its such an excellent example of an impermenant state rather than the permenant feel of english's "i am sad"
how language shapes the way we think
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