Great article. 〈Lost in Translation〉 (2010-07-23), by By Lera Boroditsky. From The Wall Street Journal.
“New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868.html no surprise to lispers. though, standard caution apply here... do take the findings in the story lightly, as such non-scientific writing usually are full of vague notions, misleading, and sometimes outright incorrect. Also, for those of you dumb mono-USers... perhaps it's time to pick up another lang. lol and, time to learn lojban too! • Xah's lojban page http://xahlee.org/lojban/lojban.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
