Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
What do you do with words that don't translate? You gain perspective from them. Learn from examples of how different cultures approach colour, time, and mathematics differently, to better understand how language may be impacting your own wiring.
I love the Internet. It does this magical thing where it takes people millions of miles away and connects them. Like you (whoever is reading this article) and I, through a shared medium; in this case, this article. It gives many people who will never venture outside of their physical borders, insight into what else might be out there in the world. While once a person would be exposed to perhaps a few hundred people over the course of their entire life, now each and every person with a smartphone in their pocket and a social network sending them way too many notifications each day is exposed to
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