Today flattering Chinese ppl as better savers bc Chinese lacks future tense, another day saying we can't do science bc no subjunctive tense
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I mean Chinese also lacks gendered pronouns and yet historically China has been a hella fuckin sexist culture so idk
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UPDATE: This just wrong. French and Spanish have a much more rigorous future tense than English, and have high savings rates
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Being an asshole and just skimming this paper, but my BS alarm's going off. Germanic speakers are not all thriftier than Romance speakers
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He compares French-speaking former colonies to Germany rather than France to Germany - gosh what affected those countries besides language
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This gets personal for me bc Mandarin is actually my 1st language, English my 2nd, so I don't know what that's supposed to mean for my brain
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@arthur_affect Phrenology.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@arthur_affect @AlexoftheSquid Whorf is junk science.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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