methnbeer t1_iu5vdh3 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 7:51 PM

Reply to comment by Rickdiculously in How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language - fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language by fonliahea1994

Let alone, simply 10 years less mature. It's very complicated I imagine, moreso than anything here is making it out to be.

gagrushenka t1_iu7n47r wrote on October 29, 2022 at 4:28 AM

I can't speak to morality and its progression, but the fact that individuals have so many differences informing/influencing their language choices is why in linguistics we don't quite go so far as to make any assumptions of why anyone says anything or what they intend to mean. All we have is what is actually said and how it is said, and we can look for patterns and points of interest from there.