Nick raised a point not long ago about the relationship between language and thought. Psychologists and ethnographers have understood for almost a century that a language is not merely an arbitrary code, but structurally shapes how we perceive and respond to the world in various ways. This NPR report gives a lighthearted illustration of that finding, having to do with the gender of nouns:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102518565
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So I wonder how that will impact our book's reception in various countries? Here's an interesting discussion of the phrasing of "world peace" in Russian (interesting because the two words have the same root, "mir"):
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1288841
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