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narrator
Apr30-11, 11:09 PM
Language affects perception, agent, view and practice in far more ways than people generally understand.

Your friend is not to your left, but rather he is to your North-East and has a vector.
Monday is a man.
I didn't break my arm. My arm broke.

See this wonderful talk (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/04/26/3200654.htm) by Lera Boroditsky.

Cause and convention turned on its head.

Drakkith
May2-11, 06:39 PM
But where is my friend on the appropriate space-time world line?

lisab
May2-11, 08:07 PM
But where is my friend on the appropriate space-time world line?

And where are my keys?

narrator
May2-11, 08:15 PM
ahh someone watched.. :biggrin:

Drakkith
May2-11, 08:24 PM
And where are my keys?

Quantum physics say they might be in your car. Or not. Oh wait, that isn't quantum physics, thats my bad memory.