linndechir

Love all this language geekery! <3 I believe linguistics is going to explode sometime within the next five years. Lera Boroditsky, a psychologist at Stanford University here in the US, is conducting a series of experiments that are slowly but surely amassing evidence That language does indeed shape thought, to the extent that speakers of different languages may differ dramatically not just in thought but in cognitive tasks, including basic sensory perception. The gender of nouns, for example, certainly influences the way in which we see objects. Germans describe keys (Schlüssel) as hard, heavy, jagged and metal, whereas keys for Spaniards (llaves) are golden, intricate, little and lovely. Just one of the nuances of language that makes it so fascinating for geeks like us. :-)