The old question of if and how language channels thought is being discussed on on the all-star Language Log in posts by “John McWhorter”:http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/000128.html and “Mark Liberman”:http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000129.html. Mark links to a paper by “Lera Boroditsky”:http://www.mit.edu/%7Elera/, who incidentally was the subject of a Boston Globe “portrait”:http://www.boston.com/news/globe/healthscience/articles/2003/11/18/sheexplorestheworldoflanguageandthought/ yesterday (click fast — the article will disappear from the free site — why can’t the Globe have free archives like its corporate sister, the New York Times?). In a sidebar, we find under Family status:
bq. No children. No pets. “I can hardly even remember to clothe and feed myself on a regular basis.”
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