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A review by sevenlefts
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
5.0
The language we speak informs the way we look at the world. But can it actually change the way our brains work? This book looks at several examples of languages around the world and looks into experiments that reveal how these languages' uses of direction, tense and gender actually seem to have an affect on how our minds are wired.
The writing, explanations and illustrations are all quite clear. I so enjoyed his writing style. Deutscher mentions several times in the book that English is not his mother tongue. I wish I was half so eloquent in my native language as he is in my native language -- which probably could have been put much more clearly and wittily.
I'll be thinking about the ideas put forth in this book for quite some time.
The writing, explanations and illustrations are all quite clear. I so enjoyed his writing style. Deutscher mentions several times in the book that English is not his mother tongue. I wish I was half so eloquent in my native language as he is in my native language -- which probably could have been put much more clearly and wittily.
I'll be thinking about the ideas put forth in this book for quite some time.