
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought
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The Use of Grammatical Categories in Languages
In Hebrew, all diseases are feminine. Yet English used to call hurricanes by female names. Why do you think languages need these categories? Every word is really a category. Humans love putting things in categories and organizing our world.
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