N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
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The Relationship Between Language and Cognition
i'm thinking of the discussion of german and dutch speakers looking at the same color in a traffic light. So i think you're right that for many people, this is dismissed as being, you know, either not real or just kind of trivial. And what what's interesting there is at this effect is actually really, know, well known for a very long time. You can do experiments where you play around with the color a that people see on paper or on a screen. Ah, and you nowt having more words for snow doesn't make you kind of think very differently. A whole bunch of experiments that show these types of effects are delving into our perception and organizing our
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