Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by d1sxeyes 1155 days ago
I agree the effect is probably minimal but it is not likely to be zero.

The jury is still out, but there is certainly evidence that a person’s spoken language influences at least memory.

I don’t remember the details but there have been studies of speakers of languages where there are more names for colours (e.g. Russian with blue, Hungarian with red) are more accurately able to recall a colour that they have seen previously than a speaker of a language without such a distinction (e.g. English).