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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 1 of 1 05 August 2010 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
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in translation - Does language influence culture? An interesting article on the links between language and how speakers of different tongues perceive the world. This question and notion has interested me for a while now, as I'm sure it has many others, why for example do some languages have unique words for a particular thing, feeling or situation whilst others do not. What does this say about the language and it's speakers? Perhaps only that a particular thing, feeling or situation was not an important enough aspect of the life of a specific peoples to be granted it's own word, and that it was important enough or atleast meaningful for anothers. Therefore this may show, however subtlely, the 'personality' and 'character' of a people through it's language, where one finds a certain word or phrase that alludes to something perhaps only known by that people. Hmm lots to think about.... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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