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Japanese gendered language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_Japanese "African
by Saline9515 3y ago
Japanese gendered language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_Japanese
"African time" and its relation to language:
https://wireilla.com/physics/ijrap/abstract/10321ijrap01.html https://wireilla.com/physics/ijrap/abstract/10321ijrap01.htm...
Personality modulated by language:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1367006912438894 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/136700691243889...
Of course, if you, as a dictator, ban the word "sad" and the adjacent synonyms, people won't stop feeling sad. However, it's likely that they won't be able to reflect on what they feel, which in turn will change the way they think. And it's likely that the psychologists of this country will have a much harder time healing their patients or writing papers about depression.