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Language and thought are some of the most critical aspects of human life. We use these two things every single day in order to be able to converse in simple conversation. In this specific article, we learn how language can actually change how we perceive things to be. Lera Boroditsky wrote this article and it includes a lot of examples and ideas that help me as a reader see the view of language better on my own. Based on this the question was posed on whether or not language actually did happen to change the way that we think. Because of this, the author talks a lot about people who speak different languages and this leads to talk about Spanish-speaking people and how they tend to pop balloons and then about Russian-speaking countries who sort, and then Australians and how they tend to avoid crocodiles. You can see that language is very heavily influenced by what your surrounding culture is like and where you happen to be from. For example, someone who is from a certai...