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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Language in Conversation
The way that we use language affects how we think about things. How much do you either feel or need to resist the urge to say well it would be better if we spoke this way? Well, in English, time doesn't move left to right to right, left in the language itself. There is a structured particular way of using left and right in their metaphors that have come from this artifact of this perpetual left-right stream calendar. For every rule we try to invent, there's going to be exceptions, and so we keep pointing that out.
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