1. What is the popular theory about the Inuit and their words for snow?, 2. Why is snow particularly important in Inuit people’s lives?, 3. How might having many words for snow affect the way Inuit speakers perceive it?, 4. Why does the author say that the idea of “hundreds of words for snow” is partly a myth?, 5. What does recent research actually suggest about Inuit languages and snow?, 6. What is linguistic relativity?, 7. What is unusual about the way speakers of Guugu Yimithirr describe directions?, 8. What do Guugu Yimithirr speakers use instead of “left” and “right”?, 9. What ability do Guugu Yimithirr speakers develop because of the way their language works?, 10. What is unusual about the way the Pirahã people talk about numbers and quantities?, 11. What does the author deduce from the Pirahã example?, 12. What experiment did Lera Boroditsky carry out with Spanish and German speakers?, 13. How did Spanish and German speakers describe a bridge differently?, 14. Why does the author say that the answer to the main question is likely to be “yes and no”?, 15. How does the blue-paint example show that we can perceive differences even without separate words for them?, 16. How are colours such as blue and green categorised differently across languages?, 17. What alternative explanation does the author give for differences in the way people see the world?, 18. What do many people say happens to their identity when they use another language?, 19. What did the 2006 study of bilingual Mexican-Americans discover?, 20. Does language change how we see the world? Use at least two examples from the article to support your answer.

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