Given that English and Japanese are both languages that do not assign objects with genders, do you have or know of any gender connotations that influenced your understanding of the world?
In the reading, Deutscher talks about how languages influences thought. Do you think your thought is influenced by your first language? If so, in what way?
Deutscher mentioned many ways language influence our experience of the world, such as geographic orientations, grammatical genders, and colors. What did you think about the examples Deutscher mentioned? Would there be other ways language changes our perception of the world?
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