Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

[Richard Zane Smith]

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,.
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*- 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? *
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*- 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?*
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wow this list could keep going...

Richard Zane Smith
Wyandotte Oklahoma
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at sil.org> wrote:

>  Guy Deutscher’s article in yesterday’s New York Times, “Does Your
> Language Shape How You Think?” is a stimulating challenge to the
> linguacentric assumptions that each of us make.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html
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> Dave
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