I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much English shapes my worldview.
Any suggestions?
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I saw a ted video by the name " How language shapes the way we think"
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Yeah you only have pronoums in english. In spanish femenine (a) and masculine (o) names are distinctive, and politicians try to make us use allways both masculine and femenine for plural putting femenine first (when plural has always been masculine), even forcing some new nonsense words ending in a “more neutral” e or x
It ends up beeing very funny watching serious politicians doing world juggles to appeal to the masses.
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In Persian language we don not have masculine and feminine phrases
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And that’s some of the stuff you export (in this case, ideology)
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In East Asia, how the word (字) is written (写) is more important than how the word is spoken (说). When writing, the character is written within a square (方形). The direction of the sentence traditionally is top to bottom moving right to left.
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A lot of other languages have words that English doesn’t, for example:
In a sense, the scope and ability for one to express themselves could be based on how expansive (or limited) the words in their language are.
By having a certain word for a specific feeling, for example, that feeling then becomes concrete in the collective consciousness of that culture— it becomes something almost tangible.
Take the German word Schadenfreude:
While this emotion more than likely exists across cultures, the Germans actually have a word for this feeling whereas English speakers do not.
This “lacking of a word” may ultimately limit the ability of emotional expressiveness for a specific group of language speakers compared to others with more expressive language— potentially shaping one’s behavior and thoughts and even mental health.
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For the sake of business communications, translation is crucial when advertising products and instructing consumers with a manual. For this reason, many products from China have the strangest English translations.
There needs to be a standard on the most commonly used words and or phrases for the top 10 languages in the world. This language database takes into account the various grammar & sentence structure used since nouns, verbs, subjects, predicates and punctuation is not positioned universally.
One thing for certain is that computer software coding and or algorithms are typed in English and won’t change for the next 10-20 years.
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The german language often has better ways of describing things more precisely than English does.
Even when it comes to names of animals, the German word is often more precise. The German word for skunk is Stinktier (literal translation is stink animal). The German word for bat is Fledermaus (literal translation is fluttering mouse). The German word for raccoon is Waschbär (literal translation is wash bear).
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And zip is reisverschluhss
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Reißverschluss literally means rip closure.
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New Croatian is more complicated…
Belt (for wardrobe) is called okolotrbušni pantalodržac… 
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Let’s make more suitable English words. I’ll give it a go…
Regusting - when something smells or tastes disgusting, but you try it again.
This has me thinking of Sniglets, so here we go:
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Aquadextrous: possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet with the toes
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Chwads: discarded gum found beneath tables and countertops.
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Essoasso: One who swerves through a service station to avoid a red light.
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Icelanche: When ice at the bottom of an upturned glass suddenly moves toward the mouth as one attempts to finish drinking the liquid.
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Jokesult: When someone insults you, you call them on it, and they say, “It was just a joke.”
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Larry: a frayed toothbrush
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Premblememblemation: The act of checking that a letter is in a mailbox after it has been dropped.
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Snackmosphere: the pocket of air found inside snack and/or potato chip bags.
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Pursabyss: where unrecovered belongings reside within a woman’s handbag.
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