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52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Impact of Language on Thinking

Grammars and words allow us to express certain ideas more or less succinctly. And also grammar can dictate that you need to make a certain kind of distinction every time you speak in certain languages, right? So like, they're, they're not all exactly the same. Yeah, I think it's not that language is irrelevant. It's just, it just buys issue in one direction or another. But you're right that we can say anything in any language.

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