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[lazycomputerkids]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[johnslat]

Dear lck,

I liked that article. I suspect that it's a two-way street to some degree, our environment shapes our language, and, to a lesser extent, our language shapes how we perceive our environment.

�Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.� This maxim offers us the key to unlocking the real force of the mother tongue: if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about."

Regards,
John

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

I agree with John in liking the article.

In fact, this article justifies me becoming a metro-sexual before being metro-sexual wuz khool.

NCTBA

[Stephen Jones]

The first sensible article I've read on the subject for years.