This is sort of an extensive article, it is a lot longer than the normal ones I find. However, it goes into more detail about how language effects our thoughts. It also opens up with a false claim that was made during the 40's by a, Benjamin Lee Whorf, who pretty much destroyed any research into how language effects our perceptions of the world.
What was interesting about this article was how it went into the existence of gender system languages and how by giving gender to objects we have this disposition on how we see things. There is sort of an emotional provocation that occurs in these languages than in languages like English, filled with their "it's." What I found most interesting, though, was how they explained that language doesn't barricade us from understanding concepts. "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey." It's not what it prohibits us from thinking, but rather what it obligates us to think.
Here's a link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I would probably recommend reading the parts that connected to bold lettering, to get the gist of the article.
It often think about how people that speak other languages think in their native tongue and I'm curious as to how bilingual and even multilingual people think and how they convey it in their mind. I mean, obviously you're going to think in the language you grew up speaking but what if you were raised speaking two or more languages. I don't know. It just fascinates me. Great article ma dude
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