Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016)
by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:35PM
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> one point of Sapir-Worf is that aspects of different languages reinforce different concepts and ways of thinking
There is a link between whether a culture's language requires temporal markers and various economic markers.
"For example, a German speaker predicting rain can naturally do so in the present tense, saying: Morgen regnet es which translates to ‘It rains tomorrow’. In contrast, English would require the use of a future marker like ‘will’ or ‘is going to’, as in: ‘It will rain tomorrow’" [1]. It is found that "speakers of [timeless] languages: save more, retire with more wealth, smoke less, practice safer sex, and are less obese."
There is a link between whether a culture's language requires temporal markers and various economic markers.
"For example, a German speaker predicting rain can naturally do so in the present tense, saying: Morgen regnet es which translates to ‘It rains tomorrow’. In contrast, English would require the use of a future marker like ‘will’ or ‘is going to’, as in: ‘It will rain tomorrow’" [1]. It is found that "speakers of [timeless] languages: save more, retire with more wealth, smoke less, practice safer sex, and are less obese."
[1] http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/Langu...