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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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How to Personify Abstract Entities in Art

Grammatical gender is so pervasive in language. Gender goes on all nouns. So, if you can show the grammatical gender effects, how people think. It gets passed down in these physical ideas that other people inherit. This is a wonderful way in which this little cork of grammar that we don't even notice, but it's making its way even into the physical world that we live in.

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