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Lost in Trarclation
THE IIALI STREET JOURNAISATURDAY. JULY 2010, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights ReservedLost in TrarclationNew cognitiue research suggests thatlnngwqe proloundly infltrcnces thn wry peopln see the world,; adilferent sense of blnme in lapanese and SpanishNow, a flurry of new cognitive scienceresearch is showing that in fact, lan-guage does profoundly influence how wesee the question of whether languagesshape the way we think goes back centu-ries; Charlemagne proclaimed that "tohave a second language is to have a sec-ond soul." But the idea went out of favorwith scientists when Noam Chomsky'stheories of language gained popularityin the 1960s and'70s. Dr. Chomsky pro-posed that there is a universal grammarfor all human languages-essentially,that languages don't really differ fromone another in significant ways.
use terms like "left" and "right." Instead, everything is talked about in terms of absolute cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), which means you say things like, "There's an ant on your southwest leg." To say hello in Pormpuraaw, one asks, 'Where are you going?", and an appropriate response might be, "A long way to the south-southwest.
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