Please read this carefully, this could give some clues to - 1) why Indians are able to think differently, because...

Please read this carefully, this could give some clues to - 1) why Indians are able to think differently, because many of us are bilinguals. 2). if we could think in Samskrit, how much beneficial that can be for understanding Sanatana dharma and our Samskriti.

Originally shared by Eric Raymond

"“By having another language, you have an alternative vision of the world”

Well, duh.  I was a crib bilingual, English/Spanish. Sapir-Whorf effects are not breaking news to me, and I have often wondered when linguists would start catching up with my experience. Looks like they're starting to. Finally.

H/T Winchell Chung 
http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/03/speaking-second-language-may-change-how-you-see-world

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