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Language is the verbal expression of culture.

A culture's language contains everything its speakers can think about


and every way they have of thinking about things. For example, the Latin language has no word for the female friend
of a man (the feminine form of amicus is amica, which means mistress, not friend) because the Roman culture could
not imagine a male and a female being equals, which they considered necessary for friendship.

Another example is that Eskimos have many different terms for snow...there are nuances that make each one
different.

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