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How Our Concept of Time Is Embedded & Derived from Our Language

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posted on 2017-04-06, 09:14 authored by Rick DobleRick Doble
Words and language are the primary tools a culture uses to conceive of time and to manage, plan, and communicate time. Embedded in every language is a concept and a structure of time that is understood by each individual but that is also shared by the culture as a whole. 
In each language, in virtually every sentence, a kind of time stamp or time code is implied, such as verb tenses which vary from culture to culture and language to language.

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