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Language and the way we think

I learnt last week that the English language brings ideas in the following way:

from A - to B, from B - to C. The links bring you and makes the unknown become known along the way as you read.

Whereas Mandarin (and Latin American languages, apparently), is the following:

A - B - C - D. It is on the responsibility of the reader to figure out the unknown, rather than the author to introduce the unknown to you.

Made me realise the logic of language, and how I think in a certain language. Also made me re-think my strategy for learning Mandarin - which I have never really pondered upon before.