https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/watch-your-mouth/
podcast + transcript
BORODITSKY: I had this wonderful opportunity to work with my colleague
Alice Gaby in this community called Pormpuraaw in - on Cape York
(northern Australia). And what's cool about languages, like the
languages spoken in Pormpuraaw, is that they don't use words like left
and right, and instead, everything is placed in cardinal directions
like north, south, east and west. So the way you say hi in Kuuk
Thaayorre is to say, which way are you heading? And the answer should
be, north, northeast in the far distance; how about you?
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