How language shapes our world
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The Importance of Languages
The potawatomi, an imigiles am tribe in the north of the. us, was one of the languages that inspired me most while writing this book. It allows you to look at the world not only through the eyes of humans, but also through the eye of insects, plants, mountains and stones. And so it is interesting, because what we cannot say, we cannot see what you were saying, you could argue. A proves that language is not just the description of the world, and words are not just yet anotherdescription of the world. Sometimes it can mean that you take in a very limited perspective or a broadened perspective. To link it to our political discourse,
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