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samuelbuggeln3 :
Apparently ancient Greek didn’t have a word for purple—it was part of blue to them—and we know that not least because of Homer’s regular invocation of the wine-colored sea
2025-01-29 22:47:11
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anna :
These Oxford interviews give such sims vibes
2025-01-30 00:30:22
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Isabella 🌞💚 :
Does language also effect your sense of time? some language being quite linear and others more circular/collective. I guess similar to the movie "Arrival"
2025-01-30 21:42:14
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verydeer :
But Im a different person when I speak a different language.
2025-02-03 20:52:05
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Fra 🪐 :
i don't generally believe this theory assumed that we are perceived differently if we speak a different language like the guy (who's very smart so no hate <3) has explained. i think it's meant to be-
2025-02-19 22:53:08
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snowy_cookie 🇵🇭 :
What about grammatical structure? Languages like Japanese and German have subject object verb for example making sentences more rigid in a sense as extending them spontaneously is difficult
2025-01-29 23:14:35
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Claire Kiu :
It doesn't affect my personality but I tend to be more at ease being more direct or having a difficult and emotional conversation in my second language because I m less emotionally attached to it ?
2025-02-01 15:29:12
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Fríða :
I want to stay on this side of tiktok please. Been thinking about this so much and nobody seems to have a definite answer.
2025-01-29 21:44:19
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Milo 🦎 :
But with different languages comes the difference in how you’d phrase a ‘normal sentence’ someone from 1 country may go about thinking of a story/scenario in one way, person 2 in another -
2025-01-30 15:42:38
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doug_scot_2 :
I speak 6 languages per working day. Speak 4 more. I feel you are influenced in emotion and thought by how you learnt the language from the people your are with while learning the language
2025-01-31 17:42:08
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Gabriela Acevedo :
These videos make me so so happy 🥺
2025-02-04 03:40:55
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SDtrainer123 :
Love these conversations despite being an unbelievably shallow thinker. I need to learn another language.
2025-01-29 23:23:07
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Stefania CG :
Weird way to propose but yes
2025-03-16 11:47:04
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nicko.savov :
You better don’t say the color theory in front of Miranda Priestly 😂 and most color names derive from the names of flowers
2025-01-31 10:21:59
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Dave 🇨🇦 :
Also languages can affect how to visualize concepts. Ask an English and Chinese speaker how they would move their hands to say “next week
2025-01-30 05:22:26
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Yegor :
It has not really been debunked. Still an active research area.
2025-03-22 01:33:24
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🤗😈 :
are these undergraduate students??
2025-02-02 05:52:04
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rawcandy 🇿🇦 :
I speak 3 fluently over 2 continents that have nada ro do with one another. there is a massive cultural difference/manner and perception.
2025-02-02 11:36:26
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Dominyka :
While learning languages I see that you get to experience the culture in itself. While you try to talk about certain things in that culture you need to adjust speaking accordingly & that is different.
2025-02-28 19:26:44
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“At least” is not very precise
2025-01-31 21:42:03
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adamTadventures :
who IS that guy!?
2025-02-28 12:47:46
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NateCR 🇨🇷 :
Emotions in English are I am sad vs Spanish estoy triste, a state vs being
2025-03-17 05:02:20
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Sidra🦩 :
Language shapes our thought
2025-02-19 17:21:19
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Mark :
I feel like the fact i already have this book makes me a language nerd?
2025-01-29 23:30:33
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Celeste Cloutier :
isn't there a language without right and left as words and they use cardinal signs as indicators. and the people who speak that language end up with a much better sense of direction then most
2025-03-14 18:54:54
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