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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 156 days ago 130 posts - 71 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 1 of 17 26 July 2010 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Great article on the WSJ here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346730457538 3131592767868.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read By the way, I agree with Charlemagne's quote there; one of the main reasons why learning foreign languages is so thrilling to me. About Chomsky and his hypothesis, that we're unequal makes learning about each other worthwhile. Edited by Juаn on 26 July 2010 at 4:01pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ladanoise Groupie United States Joined 104 days ago 45 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Danish | Message 2 of 17 26 July 2010 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is a fascinating article - I have already sent it to some friends and posted it on facebook. I agree with Charlemagne also, it's what makes language learning so much fun.
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 371 days ago 130 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 17 26 July 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I need to know what contols they employed to eliminate the possibilities that:
Russians are better able to distinguish blues, which is why the use more options in their language; cultures with better spatial and navigational skills tend to use cardinal directions in their language; cultures that aren't very good at counting, don't use specific numbers much in language; and cultures with poor temporal awareness don't use tenses much. I'd also like to know exactly what the sentence was regarding the "wardrobe malfunction", becuase I can't see myself how they could have been identical apart from the phrases mentioned (there's a challenge for someone). And what societies have law systems that focus on restituting the victims? But then I have a very suspicious nature. I blame it on ...oh never mind. Edited by schoenewaelder on 26 July 2010 at 6:20pm | ||||||
| aarontp Groupie United States Joined 78 days ago 91 posts - 28 votes | Message 4 of 17 26 July 2010 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Kary Groupie Canada Joined 960 days ago 75 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German | Message 5 of 17 26 July 2010 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, there are sentencing circles for First Nations and Inuit (which have expanded in more general use). However, I have no idea how that links with language since the languages involved are very diverse. | ||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 156 days ago 130 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 6 of 17 27 July 2010 at 12:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 138 days ago 587 posts - 122 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 7 of 17 27 July 2010 at 3:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd say language can influence culture culture and vice versa. It all depends. If you start a country and make a new language, whatever the culture of the people is there would (obviously) have effect on the language. You can see this with Korean and Japanese, there language has different levels of formality (more than two, which a lot of languages have) how they have all the different levels of formality; you can assume they had a society where respecting others was valued (this doesn't mean people who speak a language without honorifics don't respect others, though). If you take a language from another country (like the US did from England, and how Latin American countries got Spanish from Spain) the culture of your new country will probably be shaped kind of similarly to the one where the language comes from.
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| Marc Frisch Pentaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 1476 days ago 922 posts - 60 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Turkish, Italian, Arabic (Written) | Message 8 of 17 27 July 2010 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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