This recent post on Boing Boing really caught my attention; largely due to the frustration I face interning in a multi-lingual environment. However, the communicating differences between languages has become an increasingly big area of interest for me. As someone who has taken an introductory class in linguistics, albeit pass/fail and not one of the classes I am not most focused in (a euphemism for skipping class), languages are one of the most fundamental things that factor into the way we think. Although we may not realize it, our native language already factors greatly in the way we process what we sense, and how we discuss it.
For architecture this becomes increasingly important. As I have realized in my architectural studies, subtle meanings in seemingly similar words can be the cause of miserable miscommunication. As architecture becomes an increasingly international field, the communication barrier is not only a conscious problem, but also a subconscious dilemma.
