4:21 Open Pane 5:40 The Blind Pane 6:40 Hidden Pane 7:23 Unknown Pane 8:01 Looks different for different relationships 8:48 Hidden -> Open 9:22 Blind -> Open 10:17 The three extremes
I think the important factor is precision. All languages can speak about anything, but some have the ability for more precise discussion of certain things. English can speak more precisely about tenses but not coconuts or rice.
They have more respect for their elders due to the meaning being personalised as a single denominator. For example calling a colour light blue doesn't convey as much feeling as describing it as cyan, or in more extreme cases caliing one another according to our designation and identity numbers as opposed to using names. So it's more personal and thus becomes more relatable and effective.
I'm a Filipino and I only know two Filipino words for rice. Am I extremely ignorant, or is she counting words for rice in different Filipino dialects that are distinct from each other, and are not used together (essentially different languages).
i love it when she says here in America.... Do the Americans believe they own the whole continent because they have a word for it, or do they have a word for it because they actually believe that?
@@ramenstrings6036 Oh I see! Thank makes sense, actually, when I look at the keywords "determinism" and "relativism". Both completely different meanings. Thanks!
this is not in line 100 per cent with what she says in the video - but - it is equally important for me -------------- english is stunning at times - you have many words to mean rubbish - RUBBISH - GARBAGE - TRASH - LITTER - WASTE - DUMP - in italian - for what i know we have only 3 - strange - because i think we have a big problem with garbage in certain areas ... .hahahahahah
This could be due to the fact that English was initially a patois, then creole language of various Scandinavian and other languages. All of them combined to be bastardized versions of all the different tongues meshed to what we now know as English.
of course the language shapes the way we see the world - how we see the world - Pillow talk - is pillow talk - and it is a deeply-rooted word and concept in English. In italian you can see the concept of course - but we don't have such a defining word. in italian is something like - the talking that you do when you are in bed .... too long and in fact the concept in not as deeply-rooted as it is in English. and i know that there are thousands of example of this kind.
Fascinating - in italian we do not have the expression - zoo daddy - yes we have the concept but to express that we nee a whole long phrase. English has a higher level of definition of the concept that are in our reality. I would like to write a book about that starting from the translation of English into Italian. But i am not a systematic person so i think i will never do that. i am italian - i have been teacher of English - and i am sure Whorf is right - English and Italian are two different planets - and to travel from one planet to the other - is a hard task - yes of course you can translate one into the other - but it is just when you translate that you notice how different they are - and that certain concept that go with words remain ofter untranslated - perception of course in perception for an italian and for an english person - fact is that English divides perception and concepts in a different way from italian - and that is a FACT.
Wtf is the point of this? Why do people have to come up with super elaborate ways to "talk" to other people. You learn how to communicate through life, why am I being told to watch this for college man this is a waste of money
