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Birner’s article on the Linguistic Society of America’s website details numerous ways English differs from other languages and the implications of those differences, the way language and thought coincide, and the history of this school of thought. Credibility of the source comes from the linguistics background of the author and the publication the article is in Her article offers examples of the way language affects our worldview using multiple languages. For Hopi, a Native American language, no requirement exists to specify when an event happened when they use a verb, instead they say how they found out that it happened. In English, there are two different kinds of plural nouns, those that are quantifiable like ‘rocks’, and those that are
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