> >Language shapes mentality.

>Beauty on language is that it shapes the world too 

I grew up bilingual and this is so true. When I first read the books about Existentialism from Camus or Sartre in school they made much more sense in french. The translations were good translations but they didn't convey the philisophy behind it in the same way. 

zuspotirko

Let's use SN as a test audience: Why I'm learning Latin.

jimmysong


> Everyone knows that the winner of any philosophical argument is the one using the cooler Latin phrase.

lol

> Language shapes mentality.

Beauty on language is that it shapes the world too :D

See, language might have occurred to give birth and name to experience; in our case, the experience of being alive. This meaning each language is an actual manifestation of both the senses of *being,* and *being-in-the-world;* understood as how we (humans) can make through *existence* and apprehend its logic and coherence... 

Romans as bad mofos; indeed very much. However a similar itch could surge for say, Mayan, Chinese, Norwegian, and so, if we take in hand their languages as a *way* to *experience* and ultimately to *see* and understand stuff :)