Does the Language You Speak Change Your Brain?

The Sun Also Rises Radio show ^

[Thistooshallpass9]

A growing body of evidence shows that language doesn’t just give people a set of words to express their thoughts. It actually can have a heavy influence on those thoughts and on the behaviors they lead to. What would this mean for the thinking and behavior of a person who learns a “pure language”?

[gleeaikin]

Don’t forget thee and thou.

[SunkenCiv]

Something related to the overall topic, I'd meant to post this earlier.

Uncracked Ancient Codes
(Lost Languages reviewed)
by William C. West

As longtime literary editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement in London, Andrew Robinson is well able to interpret the arcana of scientific discoveries for the general public. In Lost Languages, he explains the principles of three famous decipherments and applies the insights gained to an understanding of several undeciphered scripts—Linear A, the Etruscan alphabet, the Phaistos disc, and the Meroitic, Proto-Elamite, rongorongo, Zapotec, Isthmian and Indus scripts.

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Lost Languages: The Enigma Of The World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson

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[Wuli]

Again, upu point up how “concepts” can, or may not be, represented well in a language, and from that “how” folks think can be subject to those differences.

[ThanhPhero]

Many languages have infixes, though I don’t think any of the major languages do. Many of the American Indian languages seem to be composed mostly of in and su and pre fixes to the point that what we think of words is not really relevant. They are declined and conjugated to an extent way past Latin or Greek.

[ThanhPhero]

I read 451 when I was 12 and in my anything-science-fiction phase. It is one of maybe three of them that I reread a few year later. Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon were mu favorite authors.

[trebb]

I cut my Sci-Fi teeth on them - along with Asimov, Heinlein and a double handful of others. Might as well add Ursula Le Guin, and (at an early age) Andre Norton, just to keep from being sexist

[gleeaikin]

Nahuatl is part of the Uto-Aztecan family of American Indian languages. I don’t know how extensive the the Ute part of that family extend, but the Aztecs moved down from the US border area graduall to their final city in stages. I think at that period they were called Chichimec and were known as very cruel savages. Actually, it didn’t seem that “civilization” changed that very much.

[gleeaikin]

There was a rather famous case about that some years back in Washington, DC. I white management person in the DC government referred to a small budget allocation for poor people as “niggardly”. Some people took offence believing he had used the N word. He lost his job and even the loud protests on his behalf by people who actually understood the word he used did NOT save his job.

[gleeaikin]

How do the Russians and the Chinese treat this masculine/feminine issue regarding nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

[meadsjn]

How do the Russians and the Chinese treat this masculine/feminine issue regarding nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

I don't know. I've never been to any Chinese nations.

I was speaking specifically about Spain, Portugal, and the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies. I have been to many of those.

They are among the most wealthy plots of earth in terms of natural resources on the planet, with the highest productive potential. Yet every place with Spanish or Portuguese heritage and history are economic disasters, crime-ridden, corrupt, socialist or communist or constantly being agitated by commies, poverty-stricken populations, and mindsets that perpetuate the poverty and crime.

They are all Catholic $4!t-holes, and the Catholic Church is responsible for the culture, for the crime, the corruption, the communism, the mind-boggling poverty in the midst of enormous natural wealth, and the prevailing mindset that prevents effective, constructive change.

[meadsjn]

I've also been to many muslim $4!t-holes, and they are even worse than the Catholic $4!t-holes.

Thank God they don't have such resources, or they would destroy the whole earth.

[SunkenCiv]

These two examples, and looks like one or two others:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2804064/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2859652/posts

https://www.google.com/search?q=niggardly+site%3Afreerepublic.com&oq=niggardly+site%3Afreerepublic.com

[trebb]

Yep - ignorant mob rule seems to be the long term trend for the Left - they blew a lot of time/effort/cash trying to make it absolute in the fight against Kavanaugh...I wonder if Hillary finds that concept “horrifying”....

[ThanhPhero]

Yeah, Andre Norton, her too.

[ThanhPhero]

I learned some Spanish in my Carny years when I had to call the Latinos to my ride st the Western fairs. I never cared for the language, though. It seems to be expressive the way a machine gun is expressive.There are languages that are spoken faster- Vietnamese goes out at more syllables per second- but few with that level machine like patter.

[gleeaikin]

The kind of Spanish that is likely to be spoken at Western fairs is probably quite different than the kind of Spanish I have heard spoken by college educated Spanish speakers that I have meet from time to time or who I spoke with during the 9 years I worked for and NGO with offices and personnel from 17 Central and South American Countries and the Caribbean Islands. There are distinct differences i rate of speech, slang and even pronunciation from the many different places and education levels that speak Spanish. The same occurs with the various Arabic speaking countries.

[cll]

Most so-called American hemisphere latinos’ Spanish, is derived from the Andalusian version of Spanish. But in reality, there’s no single Spanish language in Spain. What you hear spoken over here is actually Castillian (castellano), spoken at different speeds and with different, localized slangs, idioms, etc.

Spanish is very complicated. English is much more efficient. Here in Puerto Rico, with the propagation of technology we didn’t have when I was young, kids seem to be born speaking English although Spanish is the language at home. In my house, all the adults have lived for extended periods of time in the states, and our English is almost flawless, although we use what’s called “Spanglish” most often. Our now 10 year old grandson picked up English first, and refuses to speak Spanish unless spoken to in that language.

[Political Junkie Too]

That's been changed.

"Y'all" now means you, and the small group of people with you, as a single unit. "Y'all come over here, I want to show you something."

"All Y'all" is the plural, meaning all the little groups of people. "All Y'all come back to your seats, we're about to begin."

-PJ