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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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The Importance of Context in Language

In the world, language requires us to construe events in the world. Dick Cheney went out hunting for lawyers and got one; he then shot his friend Harry Whittington while on a quail hunt. He said: "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry" That is a masterful excal patient within one sentence.

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