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　　Let me tell you/about some of my favorite examples.// I’ll start with an example/from an Aboriginal community in Australia.// They are the Kuuk Thaayorre people.// In their language,/they don’t use words like “left” and “right.”// Instead,/everything is in cardinal directions:/north, south, east, and west.// You’d say something like,/“Move your cup to the north-northeast a little bit.”// When you want to say “hello” in their language,/you’d say,/“Which way are you going?”// And the answer should be,/“North-northeast in the far distance.// How about you?”//
　　We used to think/that humans were worse than other creatures at orientation,/but if your language trains you to do it,/you can do it.//
　　There are also big differences/in how people think about time.// Here I have pictures of my grandfather/at different ages.// If I ask an English speaker/to organize the pictures in time order,/she might lay them out from left to right,/which indicates that time moves from left to right.// But how would the Kuuk Thaayorre do it?// They don’t use words like “left” and “right.”// When facing south,/time moves from left to right.// When facing north,/time moves from right to left.// When facing east,/time comes towards the body.// What’s the pattern?// East to west, right?// For them,/time doesn’t get locked on the body;/it gets locked on the landscape.// It’s a dramatically different way of thinking/about time.//