There was an interesting article by Guy Deutscher in the New York Times last week about how the language we grow up speaking affects the way we think and the way we perceive the world around us.

Thomas J. Watson, head of the IBM Corporation from 1924 to 1956, is supposed to have said “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”. As with many famous quotations, there is a good deal of uncertainty as to whether Watson ever really said this. But history is full of predictions which, [...]



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My husband and I traveled to Montréal in July, an island city in the majority-francophone Province of Québec, Canada. The linguistic experience of the trip, as my husband quickly pointed out, could be summed up in the two words of this post’s title: “Bonjour/Hello,” the ubiquitous greeting we heard everywhere. The beauty of the greeting [...]