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Do We Have More than Five Senses?
Intelligence Squared
How Many Words Do You Have in Your Vocabulary?
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Until relatively recently, it became the orthodox idea that really smell just isn't that important. But when people like us see from a jeed came along and looked at other cultures, the whole picture changed. We have very, very few words which are exclusively devoted to describing things we smell in the English language. And I think one of the most interesting things is an excellent researcher who looked at the vocabularies of people. She used this approach of looking how many words in a vocabulary are devoted to each of the senses. In English, as in far as he knows just about every European language, we get the same pattern. Vision, hearing, plenty of words to describe things associated with
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