Tagged with Neurolinguistics

TFTD: Original Thought?

Posted by Void on 07/09/2007

Inside the Hotdog Factory: 39 Years Ago Today: Anniversary of the Death of Lenny Bruce An insight into neurolinguistics from an unexpected source. Lenny Bruce had died over 10 years before I first heard this on a vinyl LP back in the late ’70s. “Believe me, I’m not profound, this is something that I assume […]

Linguistics and the Experience of Emotions

Posted by Void on 03/20/2006

Tahitians do not have a word directly equivalent to sadness. Instead, they treat sadness as something like a physical illness. This difference has an impact on how the emotion is experienced by Tahitians. For example, the sadness we feel over the departure of a close friend would be experienced by a Tahitian as exhaustion.

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