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Student Name: Melissa You
By expanding vocabulary, it will indeed affect how you think. According to linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic determinism, it states that language determines the way we think. Enhancing your vocabulary also helps you in many ways such as giving a better speech filled with emotion and meaning instead of "um's" and "uh's" in between, allowing you to communicate more effectively with others, and being able to choose words with greater precision. It does affect how we think and helps us perceive things in different perspectives.

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COMMENT: Mackenzie Jordan Melissa, you're right in saying that expanding your vocabulary will help you express yourself better to other people. When I researched this I found that a broader vocabulary allows you to think faster because you can understand a concept quicker when you have enough words to understand and define it. Increased vocabulary also changes the way in which you think about things, you have a better way to think about concepts. Vocabulary, however, does not change the amount or range of thoughts you can have, it simply changes how you think about things. A larger vocabulary allows you to articulate your thoughts more clearly.

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