A surprising amount of a person’s understanding of the world is shaped by slightly different language structures and subtleties of meaning.
- vocab that does and doesn’t form a synonym or antonym
- tones, gestures, facial expressions that mean very different things across cultures and languages
- grammatical forms that come with attached significance or meaning to particular subtleties or particular subjects or objects
Mentions
- “there are cultures and languages where the past is conceptualised as what can be seen, i.e. in the direction we are facing, and where the future is conceptualised as what can’t be seen, i.e. in the opposite direction that lies behind us” - ➡