These are tools of the mind, the hidden invisible routines of language, thought and culture.

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The traditional liturgical language of both Assyrian and Chaldean Churches is Syriac - a derivative of Aramaic, the language thought to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples.

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"I was just so fascinated by his passion and his absolute boyish love of this language that I thought, 'Yep, that feels like our Romeo, " Leveaux said.

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Beyond space, time and causality, patterns in language have been shown to shape many other domains of thought.

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Many in the audience might have thought Zhu had honed his language skills and extensive knowledge of finance through years of work abroad, possibly in the diplomatic service.

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"There is certainly more interest now and support for speaking Zapotec, " adding that the revival of the Zapatec language is happening in places where it had been thought lost.

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Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.

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Simply showing that speakers of different languages think differently doesn't tell us whether it's language that shapes thought or the other way around.

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Graph Search (which I suspect was named by the engineers and nobody thought to change it) allows clear language search terms to be made to find groups of people.

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