When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.
Fantastic article about how your language forces you to think certain ways, due to conformities in gender, geographic location, color, etc. Do read, and see how I will now use this for all excuses for my own ignorance.
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