Words Are Symbols for Things in Our Lives

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Words are symbols for things in our lives, and they are much more simplicitic than the actual things that happen around us. If i look at a mountain for the first time, i don't have the word for mountain. I don't have some words to describe these things. But when i try to describe a landscape, and i just use a big jumbled paragraph, and eventually it comes down to, this is beautiful. And you know exactly what i'm talking about. It's like an analogy of a word being a od. Yes, words of ollive, retirement. Yea. That's how we say 'retirement' or 'senior citizen', which means

Language is one of the most powerful tools that humans have accessible to them.

Don't believe us? Consider the fact that someone could walk up to you and say something that could immediately change your mental state.

Nothing around you has changed, other than the words echoed through the air.

In this episode, Cal and Steph discuss the power of words and how language can shape the way we think. They use untranslatable words to convey these concepts and share how language has been shown to impact anything from our impression of time, space, or even emotional regularity.

If you're interested in digging into this more, Steph has built a directory of untranslatable words (Eunoia, which itself is an untranslatable word) and has written an article about the topic here. Send us a message with your favorite "untranslatables"!

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