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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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How to Think About Time Differently

When people are asked to lay out things in temporal order, English speakers do it from left to right. Hebrew speakers will go in the other direction. And there's even a really fun finding where, for any sentence you ask people, imagine, Bill is giving flowers to Susie. Draw that out. Well, English speakers will draw that out with Bill on the left and Susie on the right. But Arabic speakers will draw it out withBill on the right andSusie on the left.

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