[math-fun] Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

Interesting article, I thought, by Guy Deutscher in Thursday's N.Y. Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=1&partner=rs... "In order to speak a language like Guugu Yimithirr, you need to know where the cardinal directions are at each and every moment of your waking life." "... some languages, like Matses in Peru, oblige their speakers, like the finickiest of lawyers, to specify exactly how they came to know about the facts they are reporting... If a statement is reported with the incorrect 'evidentiality', it is considered a lie."