In the last post, I told you that I'm sure that "The way that we use our language may help us to fight against discrimination and help to reach gender equality in the real world". I think that it will be interesting to develop a little bit this idea. If changes in the vocabulary of a language may be an element of the fight aginst negative phenomena, we can pose such a question: If we deleted all the words that express hate, would we get rid of it? Imagine that you open a dictionary and you can't see the following words: "hate", "to affront", "discrimination" and so on... if you can't find them, you can't use them, right? Sometimes we think about dictionary as a place where we can find all the words that exist in a language and that can be used be its spakers. But we need to remember that a dictionary is a result of linguits' work. They observe how speakers use the language and note it. So, if we "threw the bad words&
The starting point and the inspiration to choose this topic for my blog was the TED speech of Lera Broditsky - a cognitive scientist working on the influence of different languages on ways that people see the world (you can watch this video here: https://tiny.pl/tg78z). According to Broditsky, "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000". I deeply believe that knowing differences between languages and cultures is the key to communicate well and clearly.