The Language You Speak Can Change Your Perception of Time
via culturenlifestyle, fyp-science
Originally posted by izbirakin
It’s all relative anyway.
Time seems to pass faster or slower depending on the language you speak, new research has revealed, because of the way your native tongue speaks about time.
In English, you might talk about a “long” day, whereas in Greek, you might talk about a “full” day – and those slight variations seem to alter our perceptions of passing time, scientists say.
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