"When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types
of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details
in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers
of other languages may not be required to think about all the
time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the
earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits
of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your
experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and
orientation in the world"
- Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com
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