How Does Language Shape Our Perception of Time and Space?

[narrator]

Is time up, down, ahead, behind?

Langauge affects perception, agent, view and practice in far more ways than people generally understand.

Your friend is not to your left, but rather he is to your North-East and has a vector.
Monday is a man.
I didn't break my arm. My arm broke.

See http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/04/26/3200654.htm" by Lera Boroditsky.

Cause and convention turned on its head.

 

[Drakkith]

But where is my friend on the appropriate space-time world line?

 

[lisab]

But where is my friend on the appropriate space-time world line?

And where are my keys?

 

[narrator]

ahh someone watched..

 

[Drakkith]

And where are my keys?

Quantum physics say they might be in your car. Or not. Oh wait, that isn't quantum physics, that's my bad memory.