Language says a lot about a people, a culture and a race. Different languages literally wire the brain differently.

There’s a reason why Germans are the most technically precise in the world.

And there’s a reason why Latin languages (and people) are more Roman-tic & fluid.

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What about people who speak Germanic and Latin languages at the same time?

There's a word for it, we call them "confused" (which literally means "mixed together") (-:

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Yes, for example a word - family. In Russian it is ŃŠµŠ¼ŃŒŃ (semya), семь - means seven and я - means I. Together it is seven and I or seven of us. I would interpret that as a husband, a wife and five children.

You're German if you can pronounce:

Tschechische Chefchemiker auf griechisch - chinesischen Passagierschiffen

That’s even better than ā€žtschechisches StreichholzschƤchtelchenā€œ.

it's called linguistic relativism and it's proven wrong

it's prolly the shared culture what causes this, but not the language

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John McWhorter is on his game … and I am no linguist … but I don’t really see a ā€œdiferenceā€ between language and culture. One begets the other, and the other begets another one.

In fact, I’ve witnessed myself, and heard from many polyglots, anecdotal accounts of languages having their own ā€œway of thinkingā€. I’ve even been alive long enough to witness the emergence of new words and word usage within many ā€œculturesā€.

Language and culture and some version of ā€œworldviewā€ seem pretty intertwined to me. But also… I’m pretty sure this is not something that can be ā€œproven wrongā€.