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Watch Your Mouth
Hidden Brain
Changing the Way People Think About Days of the Week
Russian linguist Roman Jakobsen noticed that when people were trying to act like Monday, they would act like a man. He suggested it might be the case that the arbitrarily assigned grammatical genders are actually changing the way people think about these days of the week and maybe all kinds of other things that are named by nouns. Lera asks how describing the word chair or the word bridge as masculine or feminine changes the way that speakers of different languages think about those concepts.
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