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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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French gendered nouns are weird. (lemmy.ca)

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The french word for vagina is "vagin". IT IS MASCULIN.

We have been taken for fools! The charlattans in French linguistic departments are mocking us.

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[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't argue with most of your conclusions here, but language can shape how we think. As one example, for languages that have more regular number words (12 = 1 10 2, for instance) the children can learn how to count to 100 much earlier - and this can factor into math understanding.

The stereotype of this would be the Asian maths wizard, but this holds true for a number of other languages, including Welsh and Tamil. (source1 DOI: 10.1080/0951508080228551 , Source2 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00266 )