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Minding the Brain

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Is There a Word That's Super Useful in Other Languages?

When you learn about words in other languages, it can sometimes expand the very concepts that you think about. And another example is with metaphors or idiomatic expression. So I watch a lot of martial arts movies and apparently in Chinese, there's a threat that's are you tired of living? That sounds very strange in English, but you know, people are constantly shouting it. It's interesting to me how much their, the idioms have the same meaning, even though they've got a different metaphor.

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