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Different conceptual systems have different conceptual organisations, and those differences are cognitively significant. If the different organsations are translated into a universal conceptual framework, significant differences are eliminated.
Some conceptual organisations can't be translated inot a universal conceptual framework. Humans can shift between frameworks without eliminating the differences that are lost in translation.

Notes: Lakoff cites Mixtec (a native Mexican language), as well as the work of Benjamin Whorf (1956) in making this argument.
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