{"id":38902,"date":"2013-10-01T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/language-and-the-future.html"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:13:16","slug":"language-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/language-and-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Language and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, this is kind of freaky. How your native language deals with the future (e.g., what tense it uses to discuss the weather) has an effect on future-oriented things you do, like saving money.<\/p>\n

'After scouring many datasets with millions of records on individual household savings behavior\u2014along with a number of peculiar health performance metrics like grip strength and walking speed\u2014I find that languages that oblige speakers to grammatically separate the future from the present lead them to invest less in the future. Speakers of such languages save less, retire with less wealth, smoke more, practice more unsafe sex and are more obese. Surprisingly, this effect persists even after controlling for a speaker\u2019s education, income, family structure and religion.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Note that English falls into that language category.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Jonathon Barton<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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Keith Chen: language that forecasts weather \u2014 and behavior | TED Blog<\/a>
\n Keith Chen on a collaboration between linguists and economists, to explore how the way you talk about the weather influences you.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, this is kind of freaky. How your native language deals with the future (e.g., what tense it uses to discuss the weather) has an effect on future-oriented things you do, like saving money. 'After scouring many datasets with millions of records on individual household savings behavior\u2014along with a number of peculiar health performance metrics … Continue reading “Language and the Future”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1825,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/24\/its_all_hindi_u.html","url_meta":{"origin":38902,"position":0},"title":"It’s all Hindi-Urdu to me!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Apr-02 1:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a delightfully amusing (to eccentrics such as myself) and more-than-a-bit tongue-in-cheek paper on the determination of which is the hardest language, based on how speakers of other languages perceive...","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41985,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/maybe-kay-should-learn-german.html","url_meta":{"origin":38902,"position":1},"title":"Maybe Kay should learn German","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-May-14 5:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"My daughter plans on taking Mandarin Chinese in high school next year, but looking at this map, German might be a better alternative if she plans on sticking around in Colorado.Reshared post from +Yonatan ZungerThis is a great little dive into US Census data: What's the most commonly spoken language\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13960,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/28\/its-greek-to-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":38902,"position":2},"title":"It’s Greek to Me!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Feb-09 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"At least that's what English-speakers say. 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