The speaker discussed how some languages have words which break down specific words further. For example Russian has a word for light blue and a word for darker blue. It was interesting to discover that Russians were better able to perceptually discriminate these colours as they are better able to detect a change in shades of blue.
TED. (2018, May 2). How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky | TED [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k
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