July 2010
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Does Language Influence Culture →
Being bilingual, there are a couple of things I can’t do in english (as opposed to my native spanish): multiply, go through the alphabet and express time properly.
For numbers and the alphabet, I always revert to spanish in my head and it took me yeeaars to learn to spell.
As for the time, is two-fold: I always underestimate how much time I have, and for me time is never really...
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Drowning never looks like drowning →
“The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life…
There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.”
Must read.
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