Every language divides reality slightly differently.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Languages do not simply relabel the same set of things. They cut the world at different joints, treating as one concept what another treats as three, marking distinctions in time, relation, or colour that a different tongue never bothers with. Anyone who thinks in more than one knows the odd experience of a thought that does not fully cross over.

Even without learning a language, this is worth carrying. The words available to you are shaping what you find easy to notice. When something feels hard to name, that may be a gap in the vocabulary rather than in the experience.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which feeling of yours has no good word in your language?

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