How Language Shapes the Way We Think
There are many languages spoken in the world.// Do you think people who speak different languages have different ways of thinking?// Lera Boroditsky,/a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego,/discusses this issue in a talk.//
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　　I’ll be speaking to you/using language.// This is one of these magical abilities/that we humans have.// Because of this ability,/we’re able to transmit our ideas/across vast reaches of space and time.//
　　There are about 7,000 languages/spoken around the world.// And all the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways/—in sound,/vocabulary,/and structure.// We may ask the question:/Does the language we speak shape the way we think?//
　　Some people would say yes,/and others would say no.// The arguments have gone back and forth/for thousands of years.// Until recently,/there hasn’t been any data/to help us decide either way.// But now we have scientific data/to weigh in on this question.//