Language influences the way you think

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At 20:30 -0600 16/9/03, MiaKalish at RedPony wrote:
>Note also that he only "suggests". . . in Psychology, you use this word when
>you don't have empirical evidence, and have only a guess. The equivalent
>sentence would be "Dr Kita GUESSES this is because Japanese and Turkish have
>no verb. . .  "  !  Unless Dr Kita is a native speaker of Japanese and
>Turkish, he/she has no idea whether that statement is true, or not.

For the record, Dr. Kita is a native speaker of Japanese and I know
he has professional ties to native speakers of Turkish.

Barbara Need
University of Chicago
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