Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

[MJ Hardman]

What fun questions!!  I imagine an evening, or more, of conversation in
person, just tossing back and forth all these implcatons.  And yeah, some of
us have indeed thought of a lot of these.  And stewed on them.  And  for me,
it¹s coming full circle; my first studies were with the students of the
originals named.  Stuff got lost in the middle there, where folks stopped
asking; thought they really knew.  Really?  If we think we shall discover
the nature of human existence maybe we need a bit of humility.

Thanks.  MJ

On 8/30/10 10:19 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" <rzs at WILDBLUE.NET> wrote:

> Thanks Dave,
> great article, love this stuff! .... it makes me ask some "different"
> questions.
> Makes me want to analyze the analyzers, probe the probers, to study the
>  studiers,.
> 
> - what is it that makes certain people groups analyze other people groups?
> 
> - why is it NOT important for some people groups to analyze other people
> groups? 
> 
> - has there been a specific anthropological study on anthropologists?
> 
> - is it a cultural motivated desire to find patterns and to comprehend
> everything that exists?
> 
> -why do some cultural groups seem free from a desire to understand everything
> in the universe?
> 
> - is continual knowledge harvesting a lingering desire of conquest or is it
> preeminent curiosity?
> 
> 
> wow this list could keep going...
> 
> Richard Zane Smith
> Wyandotte Oklahoma
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at sil.org> wrote:
>> Guy Deutscher¹s article in yesterday¹s New York Times, ³Does Your Language
>> Shape How You Think?² is a stimulating challenge to the linguacentric
>> assumptions that each of us make.
>>  
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html
>>  
>> Dave
> 
> 

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