“The language you speak fundamentally shapes how you think”
Agree
- Different languages categorize reality differently
- Words shape what we notice
- Grammar affects time perception
- Bilingual people think differently per language
- Untranslatable concepts prove this
Disagree
- Thoughts exist before language
- Translation is always possible
- Universal human cognition exists
- People think in images too
- Language is just expression tool
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