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elizabeth  ·  3975 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 5 insane ways words can control your mind

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Here's a short BBC documentary about the relationship between color and language. I couldn't find it on Youtube. I find it fascinating how easy it is for that tribe in Nambia to distinguish between all the shades of green that seem really similar to me and how they struggle to find differences in such different colors.