{"id":87783,"date":"2018-04-12T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87783"},"modified":"2018-04-12T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:03:37","slug":"how-language-shapes-the-way-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87783","title":{"rendered":"How language shapes the way we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:854px\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" style=\"position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world &#8212; and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language &#8212; from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian &#8212; that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. &#8220;The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,&#8221; Boroditsky says. &#8220;Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world &#8212; and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language &#8212; from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98659,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=98659","url_meta":{"origin":87783,"position":0},"title":"How language shapes the way we think","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"12\/04\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"How language shapes the way we\u00a0thinkThere are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world \u2014 and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. 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