August 6th, 2010 / 4:55 pm
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There’s a really interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about how language shapes thinking. (Thanks Robb Todd for the link.)

6 Comments

  1. August 6th, 2010 / 5:10 pm Merzmensch—

      1) Awesome. “There’s an ant on your southwest leg”. I wish I were the first poet using this line. I wasn’t.
      2) Very precise. I – as a native Russian speaker – am always very bothered by the absense of the world “голубой” (bright blue) in another languages I know. The weird thing is, “bright blue colour” does also mean homosexual in Russian. Well, nevermind.
      3) Very precise about Japanese: Japanese speakers don’t bother, who did what, they are rather interesting in what was happen
      4) Sometimes the translations are impossible – and the mentality differences taken through languages are always important to know. Actually, language cannot be examined separated from the culture of this language,
      5) I am perhaps shizophrenic, with all 4 languages…
      7) Please note that 7) follows immediatey after 5).

  2. August 6th, 2010 / 6:08 pm Janey Smith—
  3. August 6th, 2010 / 9:10 pm Merzmensch—

      1) Awesome. “There’s an ant on your southwest leg”. I wish I were the first poet using this line. I wasn’t.
      2) Very precise. I – as a native Russian speaker – am always very bothered by the absense of the world “голубой” (bright blue) in another languages I know. The weird thing is, “bright blue colour” does also mean homosexual in Russian. Well, nevermind.
      3) Very precise about Japanese: Japanese speakers don’t bother, who did what, they are rather interesting in what was happen
      4) Sometimes the translations are impossible – and the mentality differences taken through languages are always important to know. Actually, language cannot be examined separated from the culture of this language,
      5) I am perhaps shizophrenic, with all 4 languages…
      7) Please note that 7) follows immediatey after 5).

  4. August 6th, 2010 / 10:08 pm Janey Smith—
  5. August 6th, 2010 / 10:12 pm Tim Horvath—

      Cool article, Roxane. And reason to think that style might be the most important element of literature, even though the article is neither about style nor literature.

  6. August 7th, 2010 / 2:12 am Tim Horvath—

      Cool article, Roxane. And reason to think that style might be the most important element of literature, even though the article is neither about style nor literature.