in these examples, we have treated differences in language use as evidence of different ways of talking about external reality. This is often discussed in terms of linguistic relativity because it seems that the structure of our language, with its predetermined categories, must have an influence on how we perceive the world. In its weak version this idea simply captures the fact that we not only ut to a certain extent probably also think about the world of experience, using the categories provided by our language. our first language seems to have a definite role in shaping "habitual thought that is, the way we think about things as we go about our daily lives without analyzing how we're thinking.