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How does our language shape the way we think?

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Steve_The_Cat
 Post subject: How does our language shape the way we think?
 Post Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:09 pm 
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A very interesting article by Lera Boroditsky, worth reading :scratch:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/borodit ... index.html

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Interesting article. Reminds me somewhat of things like Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, and David Bourland's E-Prime (and also Allen Walker Raed's English Minus Absolutisms, but there's no wiki page for that. :P ).

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