ANGUAGE shapes the way you behave. Keith Chen, a behavioural economist at Yale, not a linguist, thinks that language matters when you start to think about what people do with money. Futured language speakers, he says, tend to save less than those whose language is unfutured. English is an example of a language that is futured ” it is raining, it will rain tomorrow; Mandarin and Malay are unfutured ” it rains today it rains tomorrow.
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