August 2010
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NY Times →
capucha:
cameronchristopher:
(via diana-vilibert)
I love thinking about the ways in which people think.
Fascinating article !
“Why is Russian water a she, and why does she become a he once you have dipped a tea bag into her?” Hahaha, kind of reminds me of reading Me Talk Pretty One Day in Francophone Africa. How interesting that grammatically- gendered language affects...
How Relevant Are Young African Writers? →
by Ronald Elly Wanda
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A Letter to A Certain Kind of Consumer
Dear X,
Why is your sense of justice so acute in a clothing store- when you don’t get exactly what you want, when your sense of entitlement is questioned, and/or when your ego is bruised- and absent everywhere else?
“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person that you are”
– Unknown 