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Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language \u2014 from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian \u2014 that suggest the answer is a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View On WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How language shapes the way we\u00a0think There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world \u2014 and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? 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