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jrtom ([personal profile] jrtom) wrote2009-07-24 10:47 am

fascinating article on language and cognition

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html

Among other things, apparently native Russian speakers are better at distinguishing between light and dark blue...because Russian has no word for 'blue', but one for 'light blue' and one for 'dark blue'. And so on.