
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought
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How Mandarin Speakers Think About Time Differently
In both English and Mandarin you can use horizontal terms to organize time. But in Mandarin vertical terms are also quite frequent. So does that mean that Mandarin speakers actually think about time vertically more so than English speakers do? It's almost like you get to inhabit another universe, another parallel universe just by discovering a different way of seeing the world.
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